EGYPTIAN JERBOA. 
piclous : for Dr. Shaw has omitt-ed this pas- 
sage of Prosper Alpinus, though he transcribes 
all the other remarks of that author. 
Edwards, hi describing the Egyptian Jerboa, 
•which he figured from the living animal in Lon- 
don, observes, that it's general form resembles 
that of the rat. The head is shaped nearly like 
a rabbit's : the ears are shorter. The eves 
stand pretty much out of the head. The nose is 
void of hair, of a flesh- colour. It's teeth are 
like those of a rabbit. The skin is covered, 
on the upper side of tiie head and back, v.itli 
brownish hair, of tlic colour of a wild rabbit. 
The under side of the head, the throat, belly, 
and insides of the thighs, are covered with 
white hair. On the lower part of the back 
is a crescent, composed of black hair, the 
horns of which turn on the sides towards the 
head. The paws forward have tour toes witli 
claws, and a rudiment of a toe with no claw. 
7"hese are void of hair, as well as the liinder 
legs, and of a flesh-colour. It generally hides 
it's fore feet in it's fur, so as to seem to have 
onlv the two hinder legs, which are very long, 
having only three toes, and are bare above the 
first 
