SPOTTED MARMOT. 
note, the original account, which we have thus 
translated — " A hound of mine caught, in the 
plain, a little animal called Zits-jan, which 
** he brought me ali-ve; and, presently after- 
wards, another, which I disembowelled, in 
order to preserve it. It is a species of Field 
" Rat, aboBt the size of a Squirrel; having 
a. short tail, and fur like that of a young 
*' Rabbit, It has not only the colour, but the 
fcnn, of this last animal, except that the 
head is larger, and the two upper teeth are half 
*' as lonp^ apainas the lower. It has, also, the 
fore-feet shorter than the hind-feet, each 
" having four toes, with one smaller rudiment ; 
and five toes on each hind-foot, somewhat 
resembling those of a Monkey," 
The above account suiHciently corresponds 
with BafFon's description of the Zemni ; and^ 
in some degree, with the Zisei: but, certainly^ 
not wiih his Souslik, which appears to be our 
Spotted, Marmot. 
Tn Casan," says BufFon, " and the pro- 
vinces watered by the Wolga, as tar as Aus- 
tria, there is a small animal which, in the Rus- 
sian 
