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Show MAMMALIA. 65 the base, broadly annulated with pale cinnamon yellow near the apex, and brownish at the apex; the hairs of the belly are deep-gray at the base, and white externally, those on the throat are pale gray at the base. ln. Lines. ln. Lines. Length from nose to root of tail 6 of tail 0 I~cngth of tarsus (claws included) 4 of car 14 ll ~ from nose to car 4 ~ Width of car Habitat, Coquimbo, Chile, (May.) o~ ·· This species is evidently allied to the two preceding; and perhaps the " Rat quatrieme, ou Rat orei llard" of Azara, (lJIIus aur·itus, Desm.) will form one of this little gr·oup. The molar teeth of the upper jaw are figured in Plate 3,,, fig. 17, athose of the lower jaw, fig. 17, b. "Inhabits dry stony places."-D. 20. Mus GAJ.APAGOENSI PLATE XXIY. JJ{. suprafuscus, jlavo-lavat-us, ad laterajlcwescens, subltts allms: pedibtts pilis sordide albis tectis: aw·ibus merliocribus ; cauda, quoad longitudinern, caput corpusque fere CPqnante: vel/ere longo. DEsc r:UPTION.- Ears moderate, slightly pointed; tarsi moderate; tail slender, nearly as long as the head and body; fur long, and not very soft; upper parts of tile body of a brownish hue, a tint produced by the admixture of black and palish yellow hairs; on the sides of the body the longer black hairs are less abundant, and the prevailing colour is yellow; under parts of the body white, with a very faint yellow tint; feet fumished above with dirty white hairs; ears rather sparingly clothed with hairs, those on the inner side of a yellow colour, and those on the outer side dusky; tail above brown, and beneath whitish ; the hairs of the moustaches black; the incisors deep yellow; the hairs on the back are deep gray at the base, broadly annulntcd with palish yellow near the apex, and blackish at the apex ; the longer hairs black; on the belJy the hairs are gray at the base, and broadly tipped with yellowish white. * It is not easy to measure the 1cidtlt of tl1e oars in th ese animals: upon mcn~nring witl1 a thread over tho curve of the outer side I have found tho width of the cars of the present anirnnl to be ns above given,- the dimension slightly exceeding that stated in the Proceedings of thr Zool. Soc. K |