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the belly and paws are covered with long hairs, annulated, 

 and very rough. 



The Varied Tenrec, considered erroneously by Buffon, 

 says M. Desmarest, as a young Tenrec, is about four inches 

 long. Its whole body is covered with silky hair and spines 

 mixed together, so coloured that the back, of a blackish 

 brown, is marked by three longitudinal lines, of a yellowish 

 white ; the middle one streching from the lip of the muzzle 

 to the anus, and the two lateral beginning at the ear, and 

 terminating on the flank. The paws and under part of the 

 body are yellowish white. 



The Condylure is stated by our author, as we have ob- 

 served in a note on the text, to be, by its dentition at least, 

 no other than a Mole. In this, we should have implicitly 

 followed him, did he not seem to treat the same species as 

 distinct in his " Ossemens fossiles ;" and as we have not the 

 means of referring to the teeth themselves, we shall append 

 M. Desmarest's description of the animal, which he con- 

 siders to be distinct from the Moles ; and, indeed, as inter- 

 mediate between the two tribes of the insectivorous family. 



The genus Condylure, says he, belongs not to the second 

 tribe of the family insectivora, but by its characters ap- 

 proaches more to the first, in which are included the species 

 provided with two long incisive teeth, and canines shorter 

 than the molars. This genus, as we shall see, may be ar- 

 ranged between the two already admitted. 



It is thus characterized: In the upper jaw there are six 

 anomalous incisors implanted in the maxillary bone, the 

 two intermediate are very large and contiguous, occupying 

 the whole extremity of the jaw, furrowed, trenchant, a 

 little obliquely, having the angle by which they touch each 

 other more salient than the external angle ; the fol- 

 lowing incisors on each side touch the intermediate, and 

 resemble long canine teeth, being conical, a little triangu- 

 lar at their base, where there are two very small tubercles, 



