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MARMOT. 
197. Alpine. 
M A R M O T. 
Two cutting teeth in each jaw. 
Four toes before, five behind. 
Short ears. 
Tail covered with hair, and of a middling lengthy 
in fome very fhort. 
Mils Alpinus, Plinii, lib. viii. c. datis, buccis gibbis, Lin.Jyft. 8-1. 
37. Agricola An • Subter. 484. Gef- Forfier Nat. Hijl. VoLGiE. Pb. Tr. 
nerquad.y 43. Raiifyn. quad. 221. Ivii. 343. 
Bobak, Swifiez, Rzaczinjki Polon. Glis pilis e fufco et flavicante 
233. Beauplan Ukraine, 600. mixtis veftitus. Glis flavicans, 
"Glis marmota, Klein quad. 56. capite rufefcente. BriJJbn quad. 
Hifi. Mur. Alp. 230. 116,117. 
Murmelthier, Kramer Aujlr. qij. La Marmotte, deBuffon , viii- 2IQ. 
Mus marmota. M. cauda abbre- tab* xxviii. Le Bobak, xiii. 136. 
viata fubpilofa, auriculis rotun- tab. xviii. 
M. with fhort round ears, hid in the fur: cheeks 
large: color of the head and upper part of the body, 
brownifh afh, mixt with tawny : legs and lower part 
of the body reddifh : fubjedt to vary in color; the 
Bobak , or Polijh Marmot , being much more red and 
of a brighter hue: four toes before, five behind: 
tail pretty full of hair : length, from nofe to tail, 
about fixteen inches * tail fix : body thick. 
Inhabits the Alps , Poland , Ukraine , and Chinefe 
\Partary: feeds on infedts, roots and vegetables: 
while they are at food place a centinel, who gives a 
whittle on feeing any fign of danger, on which they 
inflantly retire into their holes: form holes under 
ground with three chambers of the fhape of a Y, 
with two entrances ^ line them well with mofs and 
hay ♦, retire into them about Michaelmas , and flop¬ 
ping up the entrances with earth, continue in a tor¬ 
pid flate till April: when taken out remain infenfi- 
ble. 
