252 MAMMALIA. GLIRES. Marmot. 



$26 5. Hoary Marmot. — 5. Arftomys pruinofa. 5. 



Has very coarfe, long, hoary fur; whitifh cheeks, a black nofe, and black legs ; having, 

 fhort oval ears. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 261. Arct. zool. n. 45. Lev. Muf. 



Inhabits the northern parts of America. — This animal is about the fize of a Rabbit ; the nofe is 

 black at the tip ; the ears are fhort and oval ; the cheeks are whitifh, and the crown of the head is. 

 mixed with tawny and duiky ; the fur on the body is long and harih, being afli coloured at the bot- 

 tom, black in the middle, and whitifh at the tips, giving a hoary appearance ; the legs and feet are 

 black, having four toes on each fore foot, and five behind, all armed with dufky claws ; the tail is 

 black, and mixed with ruft colour. 



52J 6. Souflik. — Arffomys Sujllca. 



The upper parts of the body are of a yellowifli brown colour interfperfed with nume- 

 rous fmall white fpots ; the ears are very Ihort ; the tail is hairy, and about the length 

 of the thighs. Sm. Buff. viii. 234. pi. ccxc. 



Cafan Marmot. Penn. fynopf. p. 273. 



Inhabits Cafan, and as far as Auftria. — Dwells in the defert, digging holes in the black foil of the' 

 declivities of .the mountains ; thefe burrows are feven or eight feet long, are dug in a winding form, 

 and have feveral entries ; at the bottom are feveral apartments, in which ftores of corn, peafe, lint- 

 feed, hemp-feed, and other grains and feeds are collected, each kind in feparate cells ; befides thefe 

 they have feparate holes for living in : During fummer they feed on grains, herbs, roots, and young 

 mice. The body and head of this fpecies are fomewhat more lengthened than in the other fpecies 

 of this genus, and about the fize of a large Rat ; the ears are fhort and rounded ; the face, breaft, 

 belly, and legs are of a pale yellow colour ; the tail is covered with fhort yellowifli brown hair ; tho 

 fore feet have four toes, armed with long claws, and a fhort thumb, or rudiment of a fifth toe ; the 

 hind feet have five toes each, the two outer ones fhort, and the other three long. 



528 7. Zifel. — ArElomys Citillus. 



Is of an uniform dark cinereous grey colour ; has no external ears, a blunt nofe,, a. 

 long {lender body, and a very fhort tail. Sm. Buff. viii. 229. 

 Earlefs Marmot. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 263. pi. xlii. f. 1. Arft. zool. n. 47. 



Inhabits Hungary, Auftria, and Poland. — This fpecies burrows like the former, than which it is- 

 rather larger, being near a foot long. 



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8. Zemni. — ArElomys Zemni. 



Of a moufe-grey colour ; has fhort rounded ears ; five toes on all the feet j and' very 

 minute eyes concealed beneath the fur. Sm. Buff. viii. 232. 



Podolian Marmot. Penn. Synopf. p. 277. — Zitf-jan. Le Brun, voy. Mufcov. ii. 402.— Little 



Earth-dog. Rzacziniki, hift. nat. Pol. 325,, 



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