mackoscelides typicus.-Sm,™. 
Mammalia. — Plate X. 
• a „ n-irrp brunneo-rubro penicillato ; subtus albus 
M. capita, dorse, lateribuscpie pallida vestitis; lined rubro-brunned supra basin 
flavo-tinctus; auribue latis, rotundatxs, antic* pi 
proboscidis, versus frontem prolongata. 
Longitubo corporis 5 unc. ; caudee 4* UI1C ' . j Journa l, Vol. IV., 1829.* 
Mackoscelides ty pices, Smith, ^ooiog 
i e pVip fur of the head, back amt 
Colour. — The prevailing snrface-coloa^ ^ wood . brown ; the 
sides is intermediate between ig 1 > ' intermixture of some reddish 
colour of the back being slightly broke 5 a faint tinge of 
brown hairs. The under parts are wh.te wr It .her .a ^ sarfaC e of 
yellow; the legs are rusty white^ the ,, ish b rown except towards 
the tail is greyish brown, the loit er sum } , coating 
the tip. where both the one and the other are rd k «h .1 ^ ■ 
the inner surface of the ears and a pend “ f " e " of tUe sam e 
auditoHm pure white, the fur on the outer or h.nder su reddish 
colour as the back ; proboscis rusty brown, with a more ■»!«■£ midd le 
brown stripe above at its base, winch the fur is 
of the face towards the forehead Immediately below the surta 
a dark slate colour, " " Ztf "wlh age and 
"I : Z : in some specimens we dud the prevailing colour to be 
“X-Figure squat ; head behind 
slender, sabcylindrical and terminated by a de l.cate . n08tl .;| s 
snout or proboscis, the diameter of which is neo y y <1 each 
small, Circular, situated at the point of the P^^T^nearly 
othe r by a narrow vertical groove; eyes large l r t, broad and 
between the base X^almoTt semicircular ; with a faint rudimentary 
patulous, the cKcum OT0In inent point of the semicircle ; a tuft ol long 
irfmmedXlyX front of ,neat « Anterior extremities rather 
• generally adopted throughout Europe, ms 
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