SPOTTED MARMOT. 
"We denominate this animal the Spotted Mar- 
mot, which obviously applies to the individual 
figure, because we are not entirely satisfied 
with any of the names under which it is in- 
eluded in the different arrangements of natu- 
ralists: except, perhaps, the SousUk, of Buf- 
fon. 
It is a variety, of. the Mus Citillus, of Lin- 
nseus and of Pallas; the Souslik, of BuiFon ; 
and the Earless Marmot, or Casan Marmot, 
of Pennant. BuiTon's Zisel is given as a syno- 
iiime, by Pennant, and some more recent na- 
turalists: this, we conceive, is done without 
any sufficient foundation, as he not only sepa- 
rates them, but never once mentions them to- 
gether; unless, indeed, we agree with these 
naturalists, that they are all of the same spe- 
cies, though so very different in appearance. 
Pennant also inserts, among his synonimes, 
the Tsitsjan, or Zits-jan, of Le Bruyn, from 
w'hose voyage to Muscovy he extracts, in a 
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