1843.] Notice of two Marmots. 413 



smooth, with four proximate roundish balls for the bases of the five digits, 

 and two small vague ones for the metatarse placed subcentrally as to 

 the entire length of the planta, and transversely in the same line. The 

 tail without the hair is about half the length of the body without the 

 head. It is not thick at the base, and thence gradually tapers, being 

 rather fuller of hair than the body, and the hair exceeding the tail 

 itself by about one inch, where it forms a blunt termination. 



The anal and genital parts are void of any peculiar glands or pores. 

 In the females the teats are twelve, and extend from the armpits to the 

 back of the groins. In one specimen I find but ten mammae: the 

 larger species has twelve decidedly. The talons have the general cha- 

 racter of those of our Mesobema, [olim Urva], being of medial subequal 

 size, hardly larger before than behind, moderately compressed, rounded 

 above, and scooped below towards their blunt extremities. The 

 intestines in one specimen (female) measured ten feet and four inches : 

 in another (male) eight feet and a half, and in the former the stomach 

 along the greater arch was five inches and a half, and along the lesser 

 two inches, while in the latter it was only four by one and a half. In 

 the female, whose intestinal canal was ten-four, the caecum was found at 

 three-two from the anal, and was two inches long by one and a half in 

 diamater, cylindric in shape and curved lunately as it lay in situ. 

 The larger gut was one inch wide, and the lesser half that width. The 

 stomach was purely membranous and (as flatted on a table) of an 'at- 

 tenuate pyriform shape, having the upper orifice terminal, and the 

 lower remote from it, but so as to leave a good sized fundus. 



N. B. — There is a prior description of the large Marmot in the 

 Journal, Vol. X, p. 777.* 



* In Mr. Ogilby's ' Memoir on the Mammalogy of the Himalayas,' published in Dr. 

 Royle's Volume on the Botanical productions of that immense range, we read that — 

 ' Dr. Falconer, in the report of his recent journey to Cashmere and Little Tibet, men- 

 tions a rodent under the name of the Tibet Marmot, which he says was first found on a 

 bleak and rocky tract of country, immediately after passing to the northern slope of 

 the great Himalayan range; but we have no further knowledge of its characters: 

 however, this is precisely the locality in which mammals of this description might 

 naturally be expected to abound." 



It is not improbable that the Lepus hispidus, Pearson, described in the 'Bengal 

 Sporting Magazine,' as quoted by Dr. McClelland in Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1839, p. 

 152, should also be referred to this genus : I hope to be soon able to procure specimens 

 of it.— Cur. As. Soc. 



