230 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 
+ 1. Lipura Hupsonia. (llliger.) Tazl-less Marmot. 
Genus, Lipura. ILircEr. 
Tail-less Marmot. PEenNnant, Arct. Zool., vol.i. p. 112. Hist. Quadr., vol. ii. p. 137. 
Bewick, Quadr., p. 374. 
Daman de la baie d’Hudson. ScureBeEr, t. 240. C. 
Arctomys Hudsonius. Turton, Lrwn., vol. i, p. 90. 
Hyrax Hudsonius. SHaw, Zool., vol. ii. p. 225, 
This animal was first described by Pennant from a specimen preserved in the 
Leverian Museum, and said to have been brought from Hudson’s Bay. — It has not 
been obtained from that quarter since Pennant’s time, and there is much reason to 
doubt the habitat assigned to the animal, though there appears to be none to 
question the genuineness of the specimen. 
The characters attributed to the genus lipura, by Illiger, are: “ two superior 
incisors ; four inferior ones, obliquely truncated; an interval between the incisors 
and the grinders, which are composed of folded layers of enamel ; a pointed 
muzzle; body covered with coarse hair; no tail; feet, with four toes, armed 
with flat nails. 
Pennant describes the animal as being of the size of the common marmot 
(@. e. head and body, 16 inches long) with short ears; head and body of a 
cinereous brown; the ends of the hairs white; two cutting teeth above, four 
below ; no tail.” 
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