MARMOT. 271 
hind : tail Ihort, and of a dufky color: was rather 
larger than a Rabbet. 
Inhabits Hudfon’s Bay and Canada. Mr. Brooks 
had one alive a few Years ago ; it was very tame, 
and made a hiding noife : perhaps is the fpecies 
which the French of Canada call Siffleur *. 
Hajnefter, Cricetus, Agricola An. Muscricetus.M.caudamediocri, 300GB R. man 
Subter. 486. Gefner quad. Raiifyn. auriculis rotundatis, corpore fub- 
quad. 221. Meyer An. I. tab. lxxxi. tus nigro, laterlbus rufeicentibus 
g2. jnacuUs tr-ibus albis. Lin. fy/t. 82. 
Skrzeczek, Chomik, Rzaczinfii Glis ex cinereo rufus in dorfo, in 
Polon. 232. n ventre niger, maculis tribus ad 
Porcellusfrumentarius Schwenk- latera albis. Briffon quad. \ 17. 
felde T’heriotroph . 118. Le Hamiter, de Biff on, xiii. 117, 
Krietfch, Hamlter, Kramer Aujlr. tab. xiv, xvi. 
3 * 7 * 
M. with large rounded ears : full black eyes : color 
on the head and back, reddifh brown: cheeks 
white: beneath each ear a white fpot, another on 
each fhoulder, a third near the hind legs : bread:, 
upper part of the fore legs, and the belly, black: 
tail fhort, alrnoil naked : four toes and a fifth claw 
on the fore feet 3 five behind: about nine inches 
Jong •, tail three. 
Inhabits Auftria , Silejia , and many parts of Ger¬ 
many, Poland , and Ukraine : very deftrudlive to 
corn; eating great quantities, and carrying ftill 
more to its winter’s hoard : within its cheeks are 
two pouches, receptacles for its booty, which it 
fills till the cheeks feem ready to burk: they live 
* LaHontan, I. 233. enumerates, among the animals of Canada, 
what he calls Sijfieurs, from the whizzing noife he fays they make. 
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