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Far soft, leaden grey at the base ; the terminal fourth on the back 

 light brown, almost tawny, with numerous rather longer black-tipped hairs 

 intermixed. On the underparts the extreme tips only of the hair are 

 whitish ; but here also longer and coarser hairs with dirty-white ends, are 

 intermixed. 



Ears not covered by the fur, but projecting for about half their 

 length, rounded, very thinly clad inside and out with short dark -brown 

 hair. A tuft of long hair on the base, just below the orifice, and long hair 

 on the anterior part of the outer surface. The anterior portion of the 

 inner and posterior portion of the outer surface almost naked. 



Whiskers of moderate length, extending to the ears, but not beyond 

 them ; some black, others grey. 



Feet of moderate size ; claws horn-colour, not white, short, compress- 

 ed, overhung by hairs, which often exceed the claws themselves in length. 

 Thumb very short, but furnished with a small claw. The middle toe in 

 the fore foot only just longer than the fourth, which exceeds the second by 

 nearly the length of the terminal phalanx ; the fifth only comes short of 

 the second by about half the same length. Tubercles on the sole of the 

 fore foot 5 in number, the three anterior arranged in a triangle at the base 

 of the four longer toes, the posterior pair opposite each other in a trans- 

 verse line at the base of the thumb, that nearest the thumb being especial- 

 ly large. In the hind foot the three middle toes differ but little in 

 length, the third just exceeding the fourth, which is a little longer than 

 the second ; the latter, by the length of its terminal phalanx, exceeds 

 the fifth, and there is a still greater difference between the fifth and the 

 first. The pads or tubercles are 6 in number, one, however, being very 

 small and very possibly wanting* in some individuals ; the two anterior 

 are close together, the inner of the two being nearer the heel or proximal 

 to the other, the third a little further back at the base of the fiftti toe, the 

 fourth at the base of the first, the posterior pair as far behind the second 

 pair as the fourth pad is behind the second ; the outer of the last pair is 

 thus considerably in advance of the inner, and is small and rudimentary; 

 the last of all is situated about halfway between the base of the middle 

 toe and the heel. The tarsus is almost naked below. 



Tail fully one third the length of the head and body, or rather more, 

 diminishing gradually (not rapidly) in thickness behind, thinly clad with 

 short brown hair, which projects but little beyond the end. 



scribed the colour above as " deep brownish black, with a slight rusty shade, minutely 

 and copiously grizzled with hairs of a deep ferruginous tint." This may indicate that 

 some individuals are much more rufous than those I have examined. 

 * It was wanting in the specimens examined by Hodgson, 



