MARMOT A 937 



the enamel pattern ; premolar with a small but evident cingulum 

 cusp on anterior border. 



Measurements. — Adult male from Barcelonnette, Basses- Alpes, 

 France : head and body, 577 ; tail, 153 ; hind foot, 94 ; ear, 30. 

 Adult male and female from Canton St. Gallen, Switzerland : 

 head and body, 540 and 530 ; tail, 159 and 150 ; hind foot, 90 

 and 87. Two adult males from Grisons, Switzerland : head and 

 body, 503 and 530 ; tail, 130 and 160 ; hind foot, 90 and 95. 

 For cranial measurements see Table, p. 939. 



Specimens examined. — Forty-seven, from the following localities: — 



France : Near Barcelonnette, Basses- Alpes, 8 (B.M. and Mottaz). 



Switzerland : Salanfe (at foot of Dent du Midi), Valais, 1 (Mottaz) ; 

 Meiringen, Bern, 2; Engstlen Alp, Unterwalden, 1; Engelberg, Unter- 

 walden, 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; Schaufigg, Grisons, 3 ; Canton Grisons (no exact 

 locality), 4 (U.S.N.M.) ; Rheinwaldhorn, Grisons, 1. 



Italy : Vagna Valley, near, Mte. Bosa, Novara, 1 (Genoa) ; Aosta 

 Valley, Turin, 20 (Turin) : Argentera, Ouneo, 3 (Turin) ; Maritime Alps, 1 

 (Genoa). 



Austria-Hungary : Felkaerthal, Tatra Mountains, Hungary, 1. 



2(5, 2 ¥. Barcelonnette, Basses-Alpes, 0. Thomas (p). 8. 8. 10. 145. 



France. (C. Mottaz.) ' 63-65. 



Skull. Meiringen, Bern, Switzer- Tomes Collection. 7. 1. 1. 195. 

 land. (Koeserman.) 

 1. Engelberg, Unterwalden. Tomes Collection. 7. 1. 1. 131. 



(Koeserman.) 

 6, 2 9. Schaufigg, Grisons. 0. Thomas (p). 2. 8. 4. 31-33. 



(Zollikofer.) 

 S. Bheinwaldhorn, Grisons. 0. Thomas (p). 2. 8. 4. 30. 



(Zollikofer.) 

 1. Felkaerthal, Tatra Moun- Poprad Museum 7. 4. 19. 1. 

 tains ; Hungary. (e). 



MARMOTA BOBAK Miiller. 



1776. Mus bobak P. L. S. Miiller, Natursyst. Suppl. u. Begist. -Band, p. 40 



(Poland). 

 1778. Mus arctomys Pallas, Nov. Sp. Quadr. Glir. Ord., p. 75 (Poland). 

 1780. Arctomys bobac Schreber, Saugethiere, pi. ccix (description, iv, 



p. 738, 1782). Renaming of Mus arctomys. 

 1811. Arctomys baibac Pallas, Zoogr. Bosso-Asiat., p. 155 (Poland). 

 1857. Arctomys bobac Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 283. 

 1904. [Marmota] bobac Trouessart, Catal. Mamm. Viv. Foss., Suppl., p. 343. 

 1910. Marmota bobac Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, p. 129. 



Type locality. — Poland. 



Geographical distribution. — From Poland and eastern Hungary 

 (Galicia and Bukowina) eastward into Asia. Exact limits of 

 range not known. 



Diagnosis. — Size essentially as in Marmota marmota ; colours 

 uniform, the entire animal a yellowish brown overlaid on upper 

 parts with black, the head slightly darker than body, without 

 contrasted pale muzzle or cheeks, the tail blackish at extreme tip 

 only ; skull relatively broader than in M. marmota, and post- 

 orbital processes standing so far back that their hinder border is 

 nearly over narrowest portion of postorbital constriction ; teeth 



