M A R M O T. 
ground during winter, and is often turned up by. 
the Peafants with their ploughs': bites very hard \ 
M. with ears like thofe of mice: red fparkiing eyes :• 
fharp teeth : body long, and of an equal thicknefs- > 
chefnut-colored hair, long, efpecially on the back: 
has fnarp claws i tail long and bufhy : fore feet 
fhorter than the hind feet: fize of the German mar¬ 
mot, No. 200. 
Inhabits the neighborhood of the river Terek^ 
which dow T s out of Circajjla and falls into the Cafpian 
Sea: runs fall up hill, very (lowly down : burrows, 
and lives under ground, Defcribed by Doftor 
Scbober -f, 
* The natural hiftory of this animal is borrowed from Rzaczhi-. 
fkis AuBuarium Hiftoria Naturalis Bohni#, p. 325. The following is 
Le Bruns defcription of it: 
44 Un chien courant que J’avois, y prit dans la plaine un petit 
Animal nomme Zits-jan, qu’ii m’apporta en vie, et un autre pen 
apres, lefquels je hs ’eventrer, pour les conferver. C’eil un efpece 
de rat de campagne, de la grolfeur d’un ecureuil, qui a la 
queue courte, et le poil et la couleur d’un lapreau, auifi bien que. 
la forme* hors qu’il a la tete plus grofle, et les deux Dents de deficits 
la moitie plus longues que celles de cleiius.' II a auffi les -partes de 1 
devant plus courtes que celles de dcrriere, avec quatre grifes, et un 
plus petite, et cinque a celles de derriei-e, reffemblant aiiez a celles 
d’un finge.- 
-f Memorabilia Rujf, AJiat. in Muller s Samlwg Rujf. vii, 124. 
205, Circas¬ 
sian. 
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