if^$, DESCRIPTION OF THREE 



to the body and considerably erigible under excitement. It is two inches 

 and a quarter long, and, for the most part, equally so over the whole body 

 and tail, the face only and limbs being dressed in short adpressed fur. 

 The colour of the hair is, generally, for two-thirds from the root, yellow, 

 and for the terminal third, black ; but here and there a hair wholly black 

 intervenes ; and, sometimes, the hair has a third dusky ring towards the 

 base. The wool is soft, wavily curved in its length, somewhat more than 

 half as long as the hair, and almost entirely of a yellow hue, though close 

 to the skin, it has a dusky colour. This species in its general form exhibits 

 a good deal of the vermiform type ; both the face and body being longer 

 and more attenuated than in either of the subsequent animals. The head 

 is depressed and rather broad ; the face or nose considerably elongated and 

 sharpened : the muzzle largish and vaguely defined : the nares anterior 

 and lateral, opened chiefly to the front, but freely to the sides also, whither 

 they proceed with a strong curve ; being divided both anteally and supe- 

 riorly by a deep groove : eyes large, prominent, and possessed of a variable 

 pupil which is, however, for the most part, vertical and linear : Ears well 

 developed, freely exserted from the head and thence having considerable 

 mobility, ovoid, nearly nude, the interior complex, and the fissure at the 

 posterior part of the helix divided and furnished wdth two salient processes : 

 the body (as already noticed) subvermiform : the neck thick and short : 

 the limbs short and stout, and equally so in both extremities : the feet 

 large, broad, spreading freely, and furnished with full soft fleshy soles : 

 4 basi-digital, and 2 elongate metatarsal and metacarpal balls : the action 

 and structure plantigrade ; but not typically so, the fur extending in the hind 

 feet |ths of an inch below the os calcis, and the animal using at speed the 

 digitigrade motion with the hind extremities, proceeding by bounds with all 

 four feet at once : the talons f ths vaginate, and as sharp and curved almost 

 as in the Felinse : the tongue aculeated backwards : the tail equal to the 

 body and head, cylindrico-tapered, thick at the base, not prehensile, 



