170 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



Until lately only two species of American Marmots were 

 admitted into the zoological catalogues, the Monax of Lin- 

 meus, and the Empetra of Pallas; these, however, have 

 been very variously described by different writers, arising, 

 as there seems reason to conclude, from their having, in 

 fact, written from other species, which they had arbitrarily 

 applied to one of these. Our late Arctic travellers have, how- 

 ever, added several to these two species of American Marmots, 

 which, with some others noticed by the French zoologists, 

 have considerably enlarged the catalogue of these ani- 

 mals. 



The present division, however, of this work, does not re- 

 quire us to insert here a notice of all the species which have 

 been described, which rather pertains to the Table, to which 

 we refer. 



We have engraved, from a very elaborate print done by 

 Lawson, in North America, which appears to be the Arc- 

 tomys Monax of Gmelin, the Maryland Marmot of Pen- 

 nant, and the Ground Hog of Travellers. This species is 

 said by Pennant to have the nose and cheeks of a bluish 

 ash-colour, back of a deep brown colour, sides and belly 

 paler, and to be about the size of a Rabbit. 



The collection of drawings in our possession strongly 

 evinces the neglect zoology has experienced in this coun- 

 try, by the number of figures it contains, drawn from life, 

 principally at Exeter-Change, the Tower, Liverpool, fyc, of 

 specimens decidedly of species not described, no vestige of 

 which specimens now remain. Among the rest is a drawing 

 of a Marmot, by Howitt, which died at Exeter-Change a 

 few years ago, and though unfortunately we have no notes 

 or observations upon it, we have thought it right to engrave 

 the drawing, particularly as if it occur again a description 

 only may be given, without the illustration of a figure. As 

 the plate could not appear without a name, we have affixed 

 Marmot Diana to it, from the crescent which passes from 



