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&me feafons, are fo numerous as to occafion a dearth 
of corn. Pole-cats are their greateft enemies for 
they purfue them into their holes and deftroy num¬ 
bers. It is remarkable, that the hair flicks fo clofe 
to the fkin, as not to be plucked oft without the 
utmofl difficu ty *. 
Amcola defcribes another animal under the name 
c> 
of Vormela , which feems only a variety. It is, fays 
he, lefs-, the belly is black-, the whole body marked, 
with yellow, and tawny fpots : the tail cinereous 
and white, the end black 
LfeSouflik^^^^xr. 144,195, MusMarmotta. Sp« 15, Forjler 201. CasaK^ 
*05*. hij}. Nut , Volga. Ph. Vr. lvii. 343. 
M. with fliort round ears : fmooth hair of a yel- 
lowifn brown color, marked with faint round fpots 
of white : above and below the eye a bar of white : 
face, breafl, belly and legs of a pale yellow : four 
toes before, five behind : tail half the length of the 
body, covered with fliort hair of the color of the 
body : fize of a large rat. 
Inhabits the .banks of the Volga , efpecially near 
Saratofff: they burrow* and fit in multitudes near 
their holes, like rabbets : often fit upright: when 
alarmed, whiflle with a low note: are very fond of 
i * Great part of their hiitory is taken from die account given by 
M. tie Waltz to M. de Buffon. 
i ** Agricda An. Sub ter. 486. 
t The late Do&or Kramer, of Vienna , favored me with a fpeci- 
i men of this, animal; but 1 believe it was not a native Aujfria, for 
j % <?mits it in his Fauna of that country. 
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