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The Gingi Squirrel has the head, neck, back, and sides of 

 a testaceous colour, not unlike the Hare ; but each hair 

 is short, close, and harsh, and generally annulated, black 

 and brown, and white near the skin ; on the under part, the 

 hairs are very scanty, almost altogether wanting on the 

 belly, and entirely white. On each side of the animal, and 

 before the termination of the testaceous-coloured hair, there 

 runs a white stripe from the articulation of the fore leg to 

 the fold of the thigh ; this stripe is not perfectly straight or 

 equidistant all along with the spine, but is slightly cres- 

 cented, with the ends tapering to a point, and inclining 

 upwards. The tail, near the insertion, is the same colour 

 as the back, but in the rest of its length each hair is white 

 at the base, succeeded by a broad ring of brown, and finally 

 terminated with white, whence the tail appears to be co- 

 vered with dark brown and white hairs intermixed. 



This species is an inhabitant of Southern Africa. We 

 have engraved a figure of it, from a skin in our posses- 

 sion. 



In addition to the figures of species in this genus, already 

 noticed, we have selected two from the interminable col- 

 lection of our liberal friend, Major Smith, for engraving, 

 as presenting much novelty as well as beauty ; one belongs 

 to the section of these animals with round or cylindrical 

 tails, and the other to that which is distinguished by the 

 hairs of this organ being arranged in a flatted form. They 

 are drawn from specimens in Mr. Peel's museum in Phila- 

 delphia, and were brought there by the American Missouri 

 travellers, Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, from whom, respec- 

 tively, they take their specific names. 



Clarke's Squirrel has the back, upper part of the head and 

 neck, cheeks and tail, of a delicate silver gray colour ; the 

 shoulders, flanks, belly, and posterior extremities, both 

 within and without, are white, with a slight ochrey tint; on 

 the sides of the nose and the fore-arms this tint deepens in 



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