HOARY MARMOT. 
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tail, short, and thickly clothed with long and coarse hair to the extremity . 
The pelage is a soft and dense fur beneath, covered with longer and more 
rigid hairs. 
COLOUR. 
Fur on the back, dark at base, the outer portion white, with black points 
more or less extended ; on the rump it is dull-brown at the roots, with 
black and yellow towards the extremities. The general appearance of the 
animal, owing to the admixture of these dark-brown and white hairs, of 
which the white predominate, is hoary-brown. 
Upper surface of nose, ears, back part of the head, feet, and nails, black ; 
a black band runs backwards from behind the ears for about an inch and a 
half, and then descends nearly vertically on the neck, where it -vanishes , 
side’s of muzzle, and behind the nostrils above, as well as chin, pure white ; 
cheeks, grizzled with rust-colour and black ; moustaches, nearly all black, 
a few, light-brown. 
There are a few white hairs on the middle toes of the fore-teet ; tan 
black, varied with rusty-brown, and a few whitish hairs with black points , 
whole under parts pale rust colour, with a slight mixture of black on the 
belly ; extremities of the ears slightly tipped with white ; upper incisors, 
yellow ; lower, nearly white. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Length from point of nose to root of tail, 
“ of tail (vertebrae), 
“ “ including hair, 
Point of nose to end of head, 
Ear, - 
Palm and nail, 
Nail, 
Tarsus, - 
Nail on hind foot, - 
Foot. Inches. Lines. 
- 1 7 
5 6 
7 9 
8 4 
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2 9 
9 
3 8 
8 
HABITS. 
This Marmot was described by Pennant, from a skin preserved in the 
Leverian Museum, which was for many years the only specimen m any 
known collection. It appears to have afterwards become a question 
whether there was such an animal, or whether it might not prove to be the 
