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the muzzle elongated, the snout distinctly bilobed, and the nostrils 
lateral; the openings are nearly circular, and not visible from above. 
The whiskers are white; the longest are half an inch; there are about 
thirty on each side. The muzzle and chin are nowhere naked, but are 
covered with whitish, rather rigid hairs, less than one-sixteenth of an 
inch long. The ears are short, and concealed in the fur. The auricl> 
covers the opening; on lifting it the edges of the antitfagus and anti- 
helix are seen to be ciliated at the edges with appressed, white, short 
hairs; anterior face of ear naked, posterior covered with fur. The body- 
fur is rather loose and short; on the back the longest hairs measure a 
little more than two and one-half lines. The tail is one-half inch to end 
of hairs ; about five lines to end of vertebre; it is slender, nearly terete, 
well clothed with hairs, has no distinct pencil. ‘The tail is darker above 
than below; on the anterior side the hairs are granular from an ap- 
parently white substance resembling dried gum arabic, which is attached 
to the ends of many of the hairs; this is evidently an abnormal condi- 
tion of the specimen. The feet are rather broad and full; the hinder 
are once and a half the length of the front. The feet and hands are well 
covered above with white, shining, appressed hairs; both are naked be- 
low; all the toes and fingers have well developed claws, at the bases of 
which are red spots, formed, evidently, by the accumulation of blood af- 
ter death. The three middle fingers are longest, and nearly equal; the 
same is true of the toes. The first finger is larger than the very small 
thumb; the end of its claw extends to penultimate joint of second finger. 
The feet have six tubercles; on the hands I can. discern but. five. 
The fur is lead color at base, then light iron-gray, and tipped with olive- 
brown; the under parts are of a lighter tint of brownish-gray or light-ash ; 
the feet and hands are white, and the tail indistinctly bicolor. Length 
of head and body 2} inches, hind feet .40 inch, tail a little less than 4 
inch. The teeth have black tips; the upper anterior incisor is hooked ; 
it has a second hook on the cutting edge, a little in front of the base, its 
point even with the succeeding teeth. The large upper and long front in- 
cisors approach each other at an angle to near the tips, but do not touch; 
they have no internal lobe. The first and second premolars are about 
equal; the third is about half the length and size of the two anterior. 
There is a slight diastema between the third lateral tooth and the first 
molar. The last molar is scarcely visible from the outside. The lower 
anterior incisors have each two slight crenulations; they are stout, 
curved for the anterior third ; the front two-fifths are jet-black, and are 
united to the ivory-white posterior portion by a reddish-brown band ; 
their bases extend back under the bases of the first two lateral teeth. 
