88 - MAMMALIA. OLIRES. Arclomys. 
Typhhs. Tail o ; fore-leet 5 -toe(i ; fore-teeth broad ; eyes, ears 
Blind MolC'^ 
Inhabits Southern Rnffia ; each animal forming a long bui'-'^ 
nncei the tmf with, it.s Incut, teeth, feet and runip ; ' 
bulbous roots; when initaied gualhes its teeth and biteS h 
(juite blind, but has 2 iinall excreicencies covered with 
Ihin ; fades ot Iraell, touch and hearing s’ery acute; teah' 
brings 2 — 4 young ; 7—8 inches long; 
Hair iolt, clofe, ferruginous mixed with grey; fore-teeth 
kled, upper Ihort, lower long ; mo at K n.fe white-, <*' 
nightly palmate. 
28. ARCTOMYS. Fore-teeth wedged, 2 
each jaw; grinders upper ,5 eachja''^' 
lower 4 : clavicles perfect. Mar 0 ^' 
Thelit become torpid in the winter, ramble by dav, feed on 
and roots, climb, burrow : head gibbous, rounded ; ears 
or o; body thick; tail Ihort, hairy; forefeet 4-tocd3 
very Ihort thumb, hiud-teet 5-tocd; coecum large. 
Marmota. Ears^fhort, round; body brown, beneath reddilh. JlpinF^ 
Innabits dry open places on the lummits of the Alps and 
nets ; feeds on roots, herbs, infefts, and when tamed what<^'*i' 
ts olfered ; drinks little, balks in the fun ; lives amon^ 
tribes, v.'ith a centinel placed to give notice of danger, 
is done by a hifs ; forms a burrow with many cliambcrs 
entrances for the fiimmer, another lined with foft grafs in 
it remains torpid during winter; eats with its fore-p^""| 
walks on its heels, often eteft ; is calily caught when oih ‘ 
its burrow ; in a tame ftate very deftruaive to food, clot'’^ 
and furniture ; hardly kept awake in winter even in 
chambers; gravid 7 weeks, bring 2 — 4 young: 16 
long, tail 6. 
Head thick, crown flat ; fnoul thick, obtufe, creQ; when the 
trial fits up ; two bones of the lowcrjiatti moveable • ears 
cinereous ; cheeks covered and lurrounded witii' long *’‘‘■'*^^1 
tohijkers 6 rows each fide ; a black wart above the eyes 
b briftles, beneath with 7 ; body fhort, thick; a fiUnre K 
the throat to the anus ; feel fliort, fore-thumb conic. 
flat, dulky; it:;; ftraight, covered with long hair, blacki*^ ,i • 
tne tip ; fejk tender; fr4 and Ikin ufed by the iuount3‘i’^' ■ 
in various remedies. 
