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45. Hoary. 
46. TAarb-nBss, 
HOARY AND TAIL-LESS MARMOT. 
Inhabits the temperate and warm parts of North America, from 
Penfylvania to the Bahama Iflands. It feeds on fruits, berries, and 
vegetables. In the provinces it inhabits the hollows of trees, or 
burrows under ground, fleeping for a month together. The Euro- 
pean {pecies continues dormant half the year: whether it takes a long 
fleep in the warm climate of the Babamas I am uncertain. It dwells 
there among the rocks, and makes its retreat into the holes on the 
approach of the hunters. In thofe iflands it is very fond of the 
berries of the Ehretia Bourreria, called there Strong Back. The fleth 
is reckoned very good, but refembles more that of a Pig than a 
Rabbet *. 
It is called there the Bahama Coney. By Mr. Edwards, who figures 
one from Maryland, the Monax, or Marmot of America t+. 
Hifi. Quad. N° 261.—Lev. Mus. 
ARMOT. With the tip of the nofe black: ears fhort, and 
oval: cheeks whitifh: crown dufky and tawny: hair in all 
parts rude and long; on the back, fides, and belly, cinereous at the 
bottoms, black in the middle, and tipped with white, fo as to fpread _ 
a hoarinefs over the whole: legs black: claws dufky: tail full of 
hair, black and ferruginous. 
Size of the preceding. 
Inhabits the northern parts of North America. 
Hift, Quad. N° -—Ley. Mvs. 
ARMOT. With fhort ears: color of the head and body a 
cinereous brown: the extremities of the hairs white: two 
cutting teeth above, four below: no tail. 
About the fize of the common Marmot. 
Inhabits Hud/on’s Bay. 
* Casey Carel. ii..79. App. XXviii. t Hi. Birds, ii. 104. 
Hif. 
