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surface, they are white throughout, with a shade of pale-yellow at the 
base. Where black spots exist on the body, the hairs are less annulated 
— are dark-brown at the roots, deepening into black ; and in some spots 
on the sides, and the bands on the tail, the hairs are pure black from the 
roots. 
Moustaches, white ; around the nose, around the eye, and cheeks, pale 
fawn colour ; lips white ; forehead, obscurely and irregularly marked with 
longitudinal stripes of dark-brown on a light-yellowish ground-colour. 
There are two black lines commencing at a point on a line with the 
articulation of the lower jaw, where they form an acute angle, diverging 
from thence to the sides of the neck, and unite with the ruff, where it is an 
inch broad. The ears are yellowish-white on the inner surface, black on 
the outer, with a broad white patch in the middle, including nearly their 
whole breadth. The slight pencil of hairs at the extremity of the ear is 
black ; on the back the colours are waved, and blended with obscure 
yellowish and brown spots — assuming on the dorsal line slight indications 
of narrow longitudinal stripes. The feet, on the upper surface are dotted 
with small brown spots ; on the under surface the ground colour is whitish, 
with irregular patches of black. This is more especially the case on the 
inner surfaces of the thighs and fore legs, which present long stripes 
and patches of black, somewhat irregularly disposed. The tail is white 
on the under surface, barred above with rufous and black; towards the 
extremity there is first a bar of black about one-third of an inch wide, then 
brownish-gray, then an inch of black ; the white on the under surface 
rises above the black, making the tip of the tail white. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Malg. — Weight 25 lb. 
Feet. Inches. 
End of nose to eye, - - - 2 
“ “ to burr of ear, • 4f 
Between ears, . - - - 3^ 
Nose to crown of head, - - 5^ 
“ to root of tail, - - - 2 9 
Tail (vertebrco) - . - 7 
“ “ to end of hair, - 7^ 
Hind legs (stretched) beyond tail, 1 li 
Fore “ “ beyond nose, 
Height of shoulder from ground, 1 
Round body behind shouldei’, 1 
“ “ at the loin, - 1 4j 
Female. — Weight 20 lb. 
Feet. Inches. 
- - If 
3| 
3 
- - 5i 
- 2 5 
6 
6-1 
10 
6 
- 1 5i 
- 1 2i 
- 1 0 
