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are externally provided with a large helix- which being 

 margined in the upper part, passes in an angle to the 

 sides, where a well-defined anthelix runs parallel to it ; 

 and between both, patches of short hairs are scattered, 

 without regularity: the tragus is of moderate size, and 

 naked, reflected, in part, over the meatus auditorius exter- 

 num, and is calculated to cover it over entirely, whenever 

 the economy of the animal requires this organ to be pro- 

 tected. The antitragus is naked, and occupies a consider- 

 able portion of the auricular cavity. The ears are situated 

 far behind. 



The feet are plantigrade, and terminated by five toes, 

 armed with slender and sharp nails, which are raised, 

 and appear not to wear in walking, though not retractile. 

 These toes increase in size, in the following order: the 

 thumb or great toe, the fifth, the second, the fourth, and the 

 third. In the hinder feet, the fourth toe is the longest. 

 The nose is terminated by a muzzle, divided in the centre 

 by a furrow The ears are large, and provided with several 

 tubercles ; these are rounded, and situated on the side of 

 the head, and do not exceed it. The structure of the eyes, 

 of organs of taste, and of generation, is unknown. M. Diard 

 says, that there is a coecum, large eyes, four ventral mam- 

 mas, long tongue, and simple stomach. 



All the body is covered with thick and soft hair, uni- 

 formly brown, except that it is a little tinted with yellow 

 in the upper parts, each hair being terminated with one or 

 two black and yellow rings. The lower parts, under the 

 jaw, the throat, breast, belly, and internal face of the limbs, 

 are of a yellowish-white, and a white straight line proceeds 

 from the lower part of the neck, and terminates on the 

 middle of the shoulder. 



These hairs appear to be of a twofold nature, but the 

 woolly are the most numerous. The silky, which exceed 

 the others in length, seem all to terminate in a black point, 



