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pare of the body tawny ; lower whitifh: in form of 
the body, legs and tail, agrees with the laft. 
Inhabits Siberia * where it is called Alagtaga : 
like the former, very a&ive: digs holes in the 
ground with vaft agility with its fore feet: tears the 
roots with its teeth, and flings back the earth with 
hind feet; if purfued, and finds it cannot efcape 
by leaping, attempts to make a new hole : the bur¬ 
rows, in fome places, fo thick, as to be dangerous 
to travellers, the horfes perpetually falling in them : 
provides againft winter : cuts grafs, and leaves it in 
heaps a foot fquare to dry, and afterwards carries it 
into the burrow. 
Mu* longipes. M. cauda donga- Mus caiida longa veftita, pedibus 
ta veftita, palmis tetradaSylis, pofticis longitudine corporis, fia- 
plantis pentada&ylis, f'emonbus yis Muf. Ad. Ti\ 9. 
SongiUimis. Lin. fyft, 84. 
J. with naked oval ears: long whiskers: four toes*H-ToRRiD, 
on the fore feet: the hind feet the length of the 
body, thick, ftrong, and thinly haired : five toes on 
each foot: fcarce any neck : tail the length of the 
body, with very little hair on it: color of the up¬ 
per part of the body yellow; the lower white: 
fize of a common moufe. 
Inhabits, according to Linnaus, the torrid zqne f : 
jnentioned by no other writer. 
? Found alfo in Circaffia , and near the river 'Terek, which border* 
on that country. Vide Olearius's Travels, 415, and Schobers Memo¬ 
rabilia Ruff. Afiat. in Muller s Samlung Ruff. vii. 124. 
f Habitat in tarridis regionibus* ' ' ^ v 
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