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ARCTGMYS LEWISII.- Aud. and Bach. 
Lewis’s Marmot. 
PLATE CVII. — Males. 
A. Rufo-fulvus, pedibus albo-virgatis, cauda apice albo ; magnitudme 
leporis sylvatici, forma a monacis. 
CHARACTERS. 
Size of the grey rabbit ; general dupe of the head and body Mr to that 
of A. monax; colour reddioh-brown ; fed barred mth whole; end of too. 
white. 
description. 
Head, rather small ; body, round and full ; ears short, ovate, with 
omewhat acute points, thickly clothed with short hairs on both sides 
rhiskers long, extending beyond the ears; nose blunt naked ; eyes o: 
10 derate size ; teeth, rather smaller than those of the Maryland maimo , 
ee t short; nails, rather long and arched, the nail on the thumb being 
arge and nearly the size of the others ; tail short, round, not distichous 
kickly clothed with hair to the end ; the hair is of two kmds-a shoit, 
muse fur beneath, with longer and rigid hairs interspersed. 
COLOUR. 
Nose, black; incisors, yellowish-white; nails, black ; the whole > upper 
urface and the ears, reddish-brown ; this colour is produced by the softer 
ur underneath being light yellowish-brown, and the longer hairs 
keir extremities, blackish-brown. On the haunches the hairs are inter 
•persed with black and yellowish-brown ; feet and belly, light satmon-red 
ail from the root for half its length, reddish-brown, the other half to 
tip ’soiled white ; above the nose, edges of ears, and along the cheeks, pale 
re< Theie b ifi white band across the toes, and another irregular one behind 
them • and an irregularly defined dark-brown line around the back of the 
head and lower part of the chin, marking the separation of the head from 
the throat and neck. 
