QUEBEC AND MARYLAND MARMOT. 
HIS 7. & Oat Iho" Ge wus) XEX. 
Hift. Quad. N° 259. 
Mus empetra, Patuas Nov, Sp. Quad, fafe.i. 75. 
ARMOT. With fhort rounded ears: blunt nofe: cheeks 
fwelled, and of a cinereous color: end of the nofe black: 
top of the head chefnut: the hair on the back grey at the bottom, 
black in the middle, and the tips whitifh: the belly and legs of a 
deep orange, or a bright ferruginous color. 
Toes black, naked, and quite divided: four toes, with the rudi- 
ments of another, on the fore feet, five on the hind feet: tail fhort, 
dufky, and full of hair. 
The fpecimen which I faw formerly at Mr. Brook’s, alive, appeared 
larger than a Rabbet; but the fpecimen in the Royal Society’s Mu- 
feum * was only eleven inches long from nofe to the tail, and the 
tail three inches. This probably was a young one, 
Hifi. Quad, N° 260.—Smellie, iv. 346. 
ARMOT. With prominent dark eyes: fhort rounded ears : 
nofe fharper-pointed than that of the laft, and of a cinereous 
colour: head and body of a brown color, which is lighter on the 
fides, and ftill more fo on the belly: the legs and feet dufky : toes 
long, and divided : claws long, and fharp: tail dufky, and bufhy ; 
half the length of the body: a fpecific diftinétion from the other 
kinds. 
Size of a Rabbet. 
® Phil. Tranf, \xii. 378. 
Inhabits 
Tit 
MARMOT. 
43, QUEBEE, 
44. MaryLane. 
