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62. VIRGINIAN. 
63. Lapkapor, 
Size. 
Cotors. 
64. Hupson’s. 
VIRGINIAN, LABRADOR, AND HUDSON’s, RAT. 
Hift, Quad. N° 307. 
AT. With a black nofe: fur fhort, and in all narrs white : 
limbs flender: tail very thick at the bafe, tapering to a point, 
and cloathed with long hair. 
Seba alone, vol. 1. p. 76. tab. xlvil. fig. 4, defcribes this fpecies. 
Hit. Quad. N° 295- 
AT. With a blunt nofe: mouth placed far below: upper lip 
bifid: ears large, naked, rounded : fore legs fhort, furnifhed 
with four toes, and a tubercle inftead of a thumb: Hrwnp Lzcs long 
and naked, like fome of the Ferboas : toes long, flender, and diftinét ; 
the exterior toe the fhorteft: thumb fhort. 
The whole length of the animal is eight inches, of which the tail 
is four and three quarters. 
Color above a deep brown, beneath white, feparated on each fide 
by a yellow line. 
Inhabits Hud/on’s Bay and Labrador. Sent over by Mr. Graham. 
** With fhort tails- 
Hift. Quad. N° 319.—Lev. Mus. 
AT. With foft long hair, dufky at the bottom, whitifh brown 
at the points : along the middle of the back, from head to tail, 
runs a dufky line: fides yellowifh : belly and infide of the thighs of 
a dirty white. 
Legs very fhort: on the toes of the fore feet of the male only are 
four very large and fharp claws, tuberculated beneath ; in the fe- 
male fmaller and weaker: on the hind feet five toes with flender 
claws. : 
Tail 
