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The palms are naked, and the toes short. The hind-fect are long, particularly the tarsal 
bones, the hind toes being likewise a little longer than the fore-ones. There are six tubercles 
on the soles,—three at the roots of the toes, and three farther back; of the latter three, 
the one next the inner toe or thumb is large, the posterior one is small, and the exterior one 
minute. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Specimens procured at 
Carlton House. Columbia River Specimens. 
Inches. Lines. Inches. Lines. 
Length of head and body . : So a A te fie ha 4 3 
A head alone . . : 0 . 1 1 . 0 0 
teal cpt te. oe en ee Scat. 2 9 
Height of the ears eh ie te Sieh. Oi ae 0 6 0 64 
af of the back, when the animal stands on its 
palms and soles , *. ; . . . ; - 2 9 7 nO 0 
[46.] 1. Meriones Lasraporius. Labrador Jumping Mouse. 
GeNus. Meriones. ILtticgrer. F. CuviEr. 
Labrador Rat. PENNANT, Arctic Zool., vol.i. p. 132. 
Gerbillus Hudsonius. ‘‘ RarInESQUE-SMALTZ, dm. Month Mag., 1818, p. 446.” 
Mus Labradorius. Sazsine, Franklin’s Journ., p. 661. 
Gerbillus Labradorius. Haran, Fauna, p. 157. 
Labrador Jumping Mouse. Gopman, Nat. Hist. vol.ii. p. 97. 
Katsé (the leaper), CHEpEWyANn INDIANS. 
PLATE VIII. 
Pennant, in Arctic Zoology, first described a specimen of this animal, sent from 
Hudson’s Bay by Mr. Graham, to the Museum of the Royal Society. Afterwards, 
in the third edition of his History of Quadrupeds, he is inclined to consider it as 
identical with the mus longipes of Pallas, (the dipws meridianus of Gmelin,) an 
inhabitant of the warm, sandy deserts, bordering on the Caspian sea. ‘This 
opinion, which can scarcely be correct, was formed from an imperfect inspection 
of the Hudson’s Bay specimen, whilst it was suspended in spirits, and is opposed 
by differences in colour and other characters which he himself points out. From 
Pennant’s time, until Mr. Sabine described an individual, brought from Cumber- 
land-house on Captain Franklin’s first journey, the Labrador Jumping Mouse 
