APPENDIX. 
THE T A P O A T A F A, or T A P H A. 
This animal is the fize of a rat, and, has very much 
the appearance of the martin cat, but hardly fo long in the 
body in proportion to its fize. 
The head is flat forwards, and broad from fide to fide, 
efpecially between the eyes and ears ; the nofe is peaked, and 
projeding beyond the teeth, which makes the upper jaw 
appear to be confiderably longer than the lower ; the eyes 
are pretty large; the ears broad, efpecially at their bafe, not 
becoming regularly narrower to a point, nor with a very 
fmooth edge, and having a fmall procefs on the concave, or 
inner furface, near to the bafe. It has long whifkers from the 
fides of the cheeks, which begin forwards, near the nofe, by 
fmall and fhort hairs, and become longer and ftronger as they 
approach the eyes. It has very much the hair of a rat, to 
which it is fimilar in colour ; but near to the fetting on of 
the tail, it is of a lighter brown, forming a broad ring round 
it. The fore feet are fhorter than the hind, but much in 
the fame proportion as thofe of the rat ; the hind feet are 
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