■ SONGAR. 
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;0IS elegantly formed little animal appears 
(have been but recently discovered. It was 
first figured and described by Dr. Pallas, 
Q. celebrated Russian naturalist; who ob- 
frves, that it makes a nearer approach to the 
amster, as well in it's form, as in the disposi- 
an of it's colours, than the rest of this tribe, 
hou^^h unknown to Linn^us, Dr. Gmelin 
LS placed it in the Systema Naturse, under the 
ipellation of the Mus Cricetus Songarus. It 
the Songar Rat, of Pennant; as well as of 
her English naturalifis, in general : Mr. 
err, however, in his Mammalia of Linnseus, 
nominates it the Songar Hamster. BufFon 
akes not the smallest mention of this animal : 
t he must, we apprehend, have been ac- 
lainted with Dr. Pallas's work, in which it 
as originally described; for, though we have 
ooouncedthe discovery of the Songar to bere- 
;ar, it is not so very recent as to have escaped 
le research of Pennant, in the second edition of 
iS History of Quadrupeds, which was publish- 
! in 1793. ^ 
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