jerboa; 
Two cutting teeth in each jaw. 
Two very fhort fore legs : two very long hind legs, 
refembling thofe of cloven-footed water-fowl. 
Very long tail, tufted at the end. 
Mu? finrx? <Theophr . opufc . 295, Musjaculus. M. cauda elongata 
JEtian hift. an. lib.xv . c. 26 . floccoi'a, palmis fubpentada&ylis, 
Mus bipcs Plinii , lib. x. c. 6^. femoribus longiffimis, brachiis 
Jerboa, or Yerboa, Shanris ‘Tra- breviffimis. Lin.JyJl.85. Hajjfei-* 
*vcl$s 248. ’TexeircHs 'Travels , 21. quiji itin. 198. 
Gerbua Ed*w, 219. PlaiJledJ $ jour- Le Jerbo de Buffon x xiii. 141. 
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J. with thin ere£t and broad ears : full and dark 
eyes : long whifkers : fore legs an inch long * s five 
toes on each$ the inner, or thumb, fcarce apparent j 
but that, as well as the reft, furnifhed with a fliarp 
claw : hind legs two inches and a quarter long, thin 
covered with fhort hair, and exactly refembling 
thofe of a bird *, three toes on each, covered above 
and below with hair; the middle toe the longed:, 
on each a pretty long fharp claw: length, from nofe 
to tail, feven inces and one quarter ^ tail ten inches, 
terminated with a thick black tuft of hair; the tip 
white *, the reft of the tail covered with very fhort 
coarfe hair: the upper part of the body thin, or 
comprefted Tideways : the part about the rump and 
loins large: the head, back, fides and thighs, co¬ 
vered with long hair, afh-colored at the bottom, 
pale tawny at the ends: breaft and belly whitifh: 
the hair long and foft. 
U 4 Inhabits 
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