BOBAC. 



Arctomys Bobac. A. capite auriculato, cauda villosa, palmarum 

 mgue pollicari, corpore griseo subtus luteo. Lin. Syst. Nat, 

 GmeLp, 143. 



Grey Marmot, rufous beneath, with a thumb-claw on the fore- 

 feet. 



Mus Arctomys. Fall. GUr. p. 75. ^. i8> 

 Le Boback. Biif, 13. p, 1^6, pi. 18. 

 Bobak Marmot. Pennant Quadr. 2. p. 131, 



The Bobac is of the size of the Alpine Marmot, 

 and, according to Dr Pallas, is a native of ^' the 

 high, but milder and sminy sides of mountainous 

 countries, which abound with fissile or free-stone 

 rocks, where it is found in dry situations, and 

 such as are full of springs, woods^ or sand. It 

 abounds in Poland and Russia, among the Car- 

 pathian hills : it swarms in the Ukraine, about 

 the Boristhenes, especially between the Sula and 

 Supoy ; and again between the Boristhenes and 

 the Don, and along the range of hills which extend 

 to the Volga. It is found about the Yaik and the 

 neighbouring rivers : inhabits the southern desert 

 in great Tartary, and the Altaic mountains, east 

 of the Irtis. It ceases to appear in Siberia, on 

 account of its northern situation, but is found 

 again beyond lake Baikal, and about the river 

 Argun and lake Dalay ; in the sunny mountains 

 about the Lena ; and very frequently in Kamts- 

 chatka, but rarely reaches as high as lat. 55. " 



The colour of the Bobac is grey above, with 

 the throat, insides of the limbs, and under parts 



