MACROSCEL1DES BRACHYRYNCHUS.— Smith. 
Mammalia. — Plate XIII. 
M capitc supra dorsoque inter rubro-aurantium et flavo-brunneum, nigro penicillatis ; capitis, corpor.sque 
latcribus pallid^ flavo-brunneis, brunneo-peniciUatis ; labio superior^ oculi circulo, corponsque parti- 
bus inferioribuB albis; proboscide fulvo-aM, base lined nigro-brunned traversa ; oculis submgns. 
Longitijdo corporis cum capite, 4-i unc. ; caudee, 3{ unc. 
Macroscelides BRACHYRYNCHUS, Report of Exped. App. June, 1836. 
Colour.— The surface-colour of the upper parts of the head and hack is 
intermediate between reddish orange and yellowish brown, but broken or 
obscured by a profuse intermixture of blackish brown hairs, winch exist 
among the fur ; sides of head and body pale buff orange slightly pencilled with 
brown. Upper lip, ring round the eyes, and all the under parts white. Tail 
above, deep brown pencilled with ochre-yellow, below, ochre-yellow pencilled 
with brown : legs rusty white; fur of ears and tuft in front of meatus a,Mor,us 
yellowish white; whiskers partly black and partly ochrey yellow ; proboscis 
rusty white and crossed at its base, above, by a blackish brown bar; eyes 
nearly black; noils black. The fur on all parts of the body, towards the 
skin, is a deep slate colour. 
ForM & c . — Figure rather squat; head rather slender; proboscis short 
and slightly thicker at base than apex; eyes large and prominent, rather 
t the ears than to the snout; ears erect, long, and oval, their tips 
nearer to surface s with a thin sprinkling of fur towards the outer 
rounded , 1 bare> their outer surfaces almost entirely destitute of 
margins, else ^ and fol | y coate( l with short rigid hair, that at 
covering. j . slender; inner toe of hinder extremities consider- 
l^eSe ofhefto. ; ’nails slender and much curved. Fur long, 
