BOBAK. 
Of this animal, which is the Ar6lomys Bo- 
bac of Linnaeus, we have a good description 
collecled by Pennant. It is a species of the 
Marmot ; and the name Bobak, is it's Polish 
appellation. Rzaczinski calls it Bobak Switch ; 
and, in Purchas's Xravels of Rubruauis, it is 
named Sogur : it is the Ar6lomys, of Pallas; 
and the Bobak, of Forster, Buffon, Pennant, 
and others. 
It has small oval thick ears, covered with, 
greyish white down, and having longish hairs 
on the edges. The eyes are small, and the 
whiskers are short. The colour about the 
eyes and nose is a dusky brown ; among the 
whiskers it is ferruginous : the upper part of 
the body is greyish, intermixed wilh long 
black or dusky hairs, tipped with grey ; the 
throat is rust-coloured ; and the rest of the 
body, as well as the insides of the limbs, is of 
a yellowish rust-colour. The colour, how- 
ever, seems by no means constantly alike: 
for, according to Buffon, vvho often speaks 
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