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one eye to the other. Mr. Cross has no recollection of what 

 became of the animal after its death. 



The figure alone, and not the subject, being before us, it 

 is needless to enter into a description, except as regards 

 the colour. The drawing is tinted slight ochrey-brown, 

 whitish on the belly, darker down the centre of the back, 

 with close slightish cross-bars, which appear to arise from 

 the hairs being annulated or party-coloured, and the 

 crouched position of the body, and the consequent folding 

 or ridges of the skin, displaying the two colours of each, 

 with something like transverse regularity. The tail is dark 

 brown, and the lunated mark from eye to eye, and the other 

 from ear to ear are black, except the region round the nos- 

 trils, which is pure white. 



One of the species brought home by Capt. Franklin, and 

 described by Mr, Sabine in the Linnaean Transactions, may 

 deserve a more particular notice. This is the Striped Ame- 

 rican Marmot, Arctomys Hoodii, of Sabine, and appears to 

 be the same as the Sciurus Tridecimlineatus of Mitchell, 

 (Medical Repository, 1821,) and the Ecureuil de la Federa- 

 tion, of Desmarest. By the examination and allocation of Mr. 

 Sabine, it is now, however, placed among the Marmots ; and 

 though already drawn and engraved by the able hand of Mr. 

 Curtis, we have, on account of its singularity and beauty, in- 

 serted a figure of it, from the specimen in the British Museum . 



It measures about seven inches and a half from nose 

 to tail ; the top of the head is broad and flat, and obscurely 

 marked with alternate stripes of dark brown and dingy 

 white ; the nose is tapering, and covered with light-brown 

 hairs; the ears are small, and very short. The whole 

 upper part of the body is marked longitudinally, with alter- 

 nate dark-brown and dingy-white stripes ; the dark stripes 

 twice the breadth of the light, and dotted at even distances 

 the whole length in their centre, with small spots of dingy 

 white ; there is a dark stripe in the centre of the back, and 



