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brown. Tlie eye is rather small, and is placed rather nearer 
to the base of the ear than the tip of the muzzle. The fur 
of the animal is very long, and extremely soft; on the upper 
parts of the body it is of a delicate grey hue; on the sides of 
the body of u pale vinous tint, or red inclining to purple; and 
on the under parts white : here the hairs are uniform to the 
root, but on the upper parts of the body they are pale grey 
next the skin, whitish above the middle, and have long dusky 
points. The muzzle is slightly suffused with black. The 
hairs of the moustaches are moderately long, and black. The 
fore legs are dusky at the base externally, but white below; 
the feet are also white, but the under surface of the hind 
foot is clothed almost entirely with longish black hairs; 
the black hairs extend along the outer side of the foot to the 
base of the outer toe, but on the opposite side the hairs 
assume a brownish hue on the palm of the foot, in the region 
of the joined inner toes There is a smallish naked space 
on the under surface of the heel, a second still smaller on the 
protuberance formed by the projecting bases of the inner 
metatarsal bones; the under surface of the toes is also naked, 
and there is a large fleshy pad at the base of the toes, which 
is destitute of hair. The tail is rather shorter than the body 
of the animal; at the root it is covered with fur like tlmt of 
the body; the remaining portion 1ms the first half black, mid 
the terminal half white: the hairs covering these pints are 
dense and coarse, shorter on the under surface than the upper, 
being here about half an inch in length, or less towards the 
extremity; on the upper surface they average towards the 
base (on the black portion) about one inch in length, but 
they gradually become longer as they approach the tip of the 
tail, where they are as much as 2i inches, or more, in length 
in some individuals. The extreme point of the tail is naked. 
The male specimens are rather larger than the females. 
