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HARRIS’S SPERMOPHILE OR MARMOT SQUIRREL. 
COLOUR. 
Incisors dingy yellow ; whiskers and nails black ; back and sides 
minutely speckled with white, on a yellowish-brown ground ; the hairs 
are dark-brown at the roots, then white, then black, and the tips brownish- 
white, with a tinge of yellow ; on the nose and forehead, the speckled 
appearance of the back is superseded by a rufous tint ; between the ears, 
on the neck, and a little downwards, towards the legs, greyish-white is the 
prevailing color ; a narrow white stripe, rising from behind the shoulder, 
and running along the side of the back to the middle of the hips, there 
loses itself in the general colour of the body ; around the eye, throat, chin, 
inner surface of legs, and whole under surface of body, whitish, with a few 
black hairs interspersed ; a tinge of brownish-red on the outer surface of 
the fore legs is more strongly red on the thighs ; feet and outer surface of 
legs yellowish white. 
The hairs of the tail are whitish at the roots, twice annulated with 
black, and tipped with white. 
There is a line of whitish yellow on the flanks, separating the colour of 
the back and sides from the under surface distinctly, and extending along 
beneath the reddish brown tint on the thighs, where it becomes a deeper 
yellow. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Length of head and body 
Inches. 
hi 
“ tail (vertebras) 
34 
“ “ to end of hair - - - 
44 
From tarsus to end of longest claw - 
14 
Length of fore leg from the shoulder 
2 
hind leg from the thighs - 
24 
Breadth of tail, when distichously arranged 
11 
Height of ear (posteriorly) - 
1 
8 
Longest claw on the fore foot - 
- - i 
HABITS. 
There is nothing to be said by us about the habits of this species, as it 
has not been observed, so far as we know, since our specimen was pro- 
cured, and we have not even a knowledge of the precise locality in which 
it was obtained by Mr. J. K. Townsend, who gave the specimen to our es- 
teemed friend, Edward Harris, Esq., from whom we received it some time 
since, and with whose name we have honoured this pretty little animal. 
