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a little animal, the Chlamydophorus Truncatus. This creature is about 
the size of a rat, and possesses certain anatomical peculiarities, concerning 
which Professor Hyrtl published a monograph in 1855. On this account, 
and also for. its extreme rarity, the sum of £40 was given for that object 
alone. There are hut two specimens known of : one is in the Anatomical 
Museum of the London Zoological Gardens ; the other is the one mentioned 
above. Neither are there likely to be any more seen ; for the only place 
in which the Chlamydophorus has been found was in the town of Mendoza, 
in the high lands of Chili, and which was totally buried, with its 14,000 
inhabitants, by an earthquake in the Andes, in 1861. 
