GfJNDI MARMOT., AND BOBAC. 8 3 
Gundi MARMOT. 
This animal is of the size of a small rabbit, 
and of a red colour ; inhabits Barbary towards 
mount Atlas. It has truncated ears, with large 
apertures, and a short tail. Its upper fore teeth 
are truncated ; the lower slender, and pointed. It 
has four toes on each foot, furnished with clawi# 
and walks on the hind feet as far as the heel* 
BOBAC. 
Tiie bobac is about the size of the Alpine mar- 
mot. Its colour is grey above, and beneath fulvoua 
or ferruginous. The tail is short, somewhat slen- 
der, and very hairy.-— It is a native of Poland, 
Russia, and other mountainous parts of Europe. 
These animals burrow obliquely in the ground 
to the depth of two, three, or four yards ; and 
form numbers of galleries, with one common en- 
trance from the surface ; each gallery ending in 
the nest of its inhabitants. Sometimes, however, 
the burrows consist of but one passage. Though 
these are found in the greatest numbers where the 
earth is lightest, yet they are very common even in 
the strata of the mountains. In very hard and 
rocky places, from twenty to forty of these animals 
join together to facilitate the work • and they 
live in society, eaeh with its nest at the end of its 
respective gallery. To their nests they collect, 
especially towards autumn, the finest hay they can 
procure ; and in such plenty, that sufficient is 
often found jin one of them for a night’s food for ft 
horse. 
During the middle, or sunny part of the day, 
they sport about the entrance of their holes ; but 
fejdom go far from them. At the sight of man. 
