SPOTTED MARMOT. 
sian language, is called the Souslik. It fui- 
Bishes a beautiful fur; and, in figure and 
shortness of tail, hears a great resemblance to 
the Short-Tailed Field Mouse. But it is dis- 
tinguished from the Mouse or Rat kind; b)^ 
it's fur; which is every v/here interspersed 
with small spots of a bright and shining white. 
These spots exceed not a line in diameter, and 
are placed at the distance of two or three lines 
from each other. They are more conspicu- 
ous, and better defined, on the loins, than on 
the shouldeis and head. Mr. Pennant, a well 
known and very able naturalist, favoured me 
with one of these Sousliks; which had been 
transmitted to him, from Austria, as an animal 
unknown to the naturalists. I recognised it to 
be the same animal with that of which I had 
a skin in my possession ; and of which M. 
Sanchez, formerly Physician to the Court of 
Russia, sent me the following notice — Great 
numbers of the Rats called Sousliks, are 
taken in the barks loaded with salt in the 
*' River Kama.; which descend from Soli- 
kamski, where there are salt-pits, and fall 
into the Wolga, above the town of Casan, 
the confluence of the Teluschio, The 
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