EGYPTIAN JEREOA. 
17. The word Achbar, which is in the ori- 
ginal, signifying a male Jerboa. This, and 
ihe Great Siberian Jerboa, which are botli 
found to extend to the colder regions, grow 
torpld on any approach of cold, and remairi 
in that state till they are revived by a change 
of weather. Pallas denominates this class, 
the Species Lethargicre.'* ?';'rM - 
In the above account, from Pennant, wf 
suspecl some contusion : and incline to agree 
with BufFon, in the distimSlions which he 
makes between the Tarsier, or Woolly Jer- 
boa, which he asserts to be an undoubted par- 
ticular species, because it has five toes on each 
foot, like those of a Monkcv ; the Jerboa, 
properly so called, which is our Egvptian Jer- 
boa; theAlagtaga, with legs like those of the 
Jerboa, but having five toes on tlie fore feet, 
and three onlv, with a short spur, which niav 
pass for a thumb, or fourth toe, on the hind 
feet; and the Daman Israel, or Lamb of Is- 
rael, which may be the Miis Longipes of Lin- 
naeus, having four toes on tlic fore fjet, and 
five on those behind. Alar-tao^a, which is the 
Tartarian name of that species of the Jerboa^ 
