MAMMALIA, = _* 267 
very slightly arched, narrow, and is clothed towards its tip with short hair of a liver-brown 
coiour, which gradually mingles towards the forehead with yellowish-brown hair. The orbits 
have a narrow, blackish-brown margin, and the eye-lashes, composed of a row of stiff, erect 
hairs, are black. The cheeks are covered with short hair, mostly of a wood-brown colour, 
and the forehead is clothed with longer bushy hair, and presents two white marks, one 
extending from ear to ear, the other a little anterior to it; the latter mark is slightly 
tinged with brown. The ears are upwards of six inches high, narrow, and have the inner side 
curving in for half their height; from thence to their acute tips they are flat. They are 
covered posteriorly by a smooth coat of short hair, of a yellowish-brown colour, mixed with 
dark umber, the latter colour prevailing near the tip. They are lined interiorly with longer 
hair of a grayish-white colour. There is a dark blackish-brown spot at the angle of each 
jaw, which exhales a strong hircine odour, and between this spot and the ear the hair is pale, 
or nearly white. There are no external indications whatever of a crumen or lachrymal 
opening. ‘The upper parts of the body are ofa clear, yellowish-brown colour, deepening on 
the ridge of the back into blackish-gray. The hairs are much longer between the ears, and 
on the back of the neck, where they form an erect mane, of a blackish brown colour on its 
tips. The sides and thighs are paler than the back, and approach in colour'to a clear wood- 
brown. The under jaw has a very pale yellowish-brown colour, fading to white. The hair is 
bushy about the angle of the lower jaw, and has a wood-brown colour. This colour forms 
three belts across the throat, which differ from each other in breadth, and are separated by 
two patches of pure white. The chest, belly, insides of the thighs, and legs, the tail, and a 
large patch round it, which includes the rump, and upper part of the buttocks, are pure white. 
There is a pale yellowish mark at the root of the tail. The tail is 4} inches long. The legs 
are slender, with long shank-bones; the fur, covering their anterior surfaces, is yellowish- 
brown. It has only two hoofs, there being no vestige of the posterior supplementary ones. 
The hair, which clothes the body, resembles that of a moose or rein-deer in its structure. 
It is long, round, tapering from the root to the point, waved, and of a soft and brittle texture, 
particularly towards the root, where it is easily compressed, and does not regain its round form 
again. Its interior is white and spongy, like the pith of rush. When the hair makes its 
first appearance in the summer, it forms a smooth coat, and has the ordinary flexibility and 
appearance of hair; but as it lengthens it acquires the brittle, spongy texture, at its roots, 
and, increasing at saa! same time in diameter, it becomes erect, and forms a very close coat. 
As the spring approaches the fine and flexible points are rubbed off, particularly on the sides, 
where the hair appears as if it had been clipped. The mane on the hind-head and neck 
retains its darker points, even when the winter coat is dropping off. ‘The nose, cheeks, part 
of the lower jaw, ears, and legs, are clothed at all times with short, flexible hairs, which 
lie smoothly. 
DiMENsIons. 
Feet. Inches. Feet. Inches, 
Length from the nose to the root of the tail 4 4 Girth behind the fore-legs 5 53 0 
Height at the fore-shoulder : : 3 0 5, before the hind-legs ° ¢ 2 10 
cp 5, haunches E 3 0 Length of the tail, with the hair 0 43 
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