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Show HO ZOOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE OF Tim llEAGLE. f et rather mall, tarsus short; tail rather shorter than the body, thick at the base; fur loug and extremely soft, and silk-like. Geneml colour pale grayish browu, with a slight yellow wash; tlJC upper part of the head and tlte back dusky brown; unucr parts of the body very pale yellowish brown , iucliuing to white; chin and. throat whitish; feet uirty white; tail well c1othcd with hairs, which are closely adpresseu, brown above, and. of a very pale brown beneath at the base, darker towards the apex. The hait·s of the moustaches are numerous, long, rather slender, and of a browuish colour· The cars are brown, furnished externally at the base with fur resembling that of the body; the remaining parts (both external and internal) arc beset with long and extremely slender brown hairs, which project considerably beyond the margin of the car. The ordinary fur on the back is about ten lines iu length, but thickly interspersed with this fur, arc longer hairs which arc so delicate that they may almost be compared to the spiuers' thread. Both on the upper and under side of the body the fur is deep gray at the base. The incisors are yellow. ln. Lines. ln. Lines. Length from nose to root of tail of tail 0 Length of tarsus (claws iucluded) of car I 0 10 from nose to car L ll WiJth of car I 0.1 Habitat, Chile, (August. ) "This animal was caught amongst some thickets in a valley on the flanks of the COI·dillem, near Aconcagua. On the elevated plain, near the town of Santa Rosa, in front of the same part of the Andes, 1 saw two others, which were crawling up an acacia tree, with so much facility, that this practice must be, 1 should. think, habitual with them."-D. 2. Annocol\rA CuvrEIH. PuATE XXIX. Ahrocoma. Uuvicri, Water/1., hocccdiugs of the Zoological Society of Lonuon for February 1837, p. 32. Ab. Sltpra grisea, leviter oc!traceo lavala; abdmnine !fuluque albescenti-gTiseis; pedibus sordide albis; aU?·ilnts amplis, ad 1na1·ginem posticum distincte e·mmginatis; cmtda cm7JOre m·ulto b1·evim·e, et nig,·escente. DBSCRIPTIO .-Ears large; tail considerably shorter than the body; fur extremely |