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MACIlOFODIDiE. 
sides of the body a faint rusty tint is observed (sometimes 
the rufous tint on these parts, as well as the fore-part of the 
hind legs, is tolerably distinct) ; around the eye is a ring of a 
very pale rust colour, and the muzzle is suffused ■with the 
same tint. The ears are rather long and attenuated at the 
apex, have long white hairs within, and very minute hairs 
externally, which are dusky and very finely freckled with 
yellowish white; on the hinder half, the hairs are longer and 
almost white; the apex of the ear has a delicate fringe of 
blackish hairs. Fore-feet small, sometimes brown, and some¬ 
times of a dirty-white colour. Tarsi also small, slender, and 
chiefly of a dirty-white colour ; but the sides of the toes are 
suffused with palish brown. The tail is clothed for the most 
part with short adpressed hairs, having a general greyish tint; 
the upper surface is clothed throughout its length with some¬ 
what longer hairs; on the apical portion they form a slight 
crest, which is usually blackish, and the under surface at the 
end of the tail is dusky ; the tip of the tail is provided with 
a small conical horny appendage, like a nail, which is about 
an eighth of an inch in length. 
Male.—B rit. Mtis.* 
Ins. 
Lines. 
Ins. 
Lines. 
Length from nose to root of tail 
14 
G 
19 
0 
“ 41 ear 
2 
2 
3 
0 
4< of tail . 
8 
6 
13 
3 
11 of tarsus and claw 
4 
0 
5 
0 
fi of ear ... . 1 
“ of fore-arm and hand to end 
8 
2 
m 
1 
of claws, about 
1 
11 
3 
10 
The cutting edges of the upper 
incisor teeth. 
in 
the present 
species, terminate nearly all on the same plane; the three 
incisors on either side of the upper jaw are small, and of equal 
width, or perhaps the foremost rather exceeds the other two; 
this tooth 1ms a longitudinal groove : the second incisor 
has no groove, and is somewhat rounded at the point: the 
third, or himlermost incisor, has an oblique external fold, 
