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EURYOTIS IRRORATUS.—Brants.
Mammalia.;—P late XXII.
E. supri aurantio-ruber dense branneo nut nigro-brunneo-penioillatus; capitis, corporisque lateribus
etiamque pedibns similibus sed palUdioribns et lineis minus distinctis; subtns sordide griseo-Bavus
* lmdo-umbratus; candd supra branneo-rnbrd, snbtns flayo-alba; auribns rufn-fhms brnnneo-penicil-
latis; oculis brunneo-nigris; villosubrigido.
Longittjdo ab apice nasi ad basin caudee 8 unc. 1 lin.; c^udse 3 unc. 5 lin.
E uryotis irror at a, Brants. Het. Geslacht der Muisen Berlyn, 1827-
Mbs irroratus, Licbt.
Colour.—The surface colours of the upper parts of the head, neck, and body,
are orange red, and umber or blackish brown nearly in equal proportions,
and most intimately mingled, the one colour as if profusely pencilled with
delicate lines of the other. The lateral parts of the head and the body,
together with the extremities, are similarly coloured, only the tints are duller
and paler, and the limits of the different colours not so distinctly defined.
The under parts, from the chin to the tail, dusky greyish yellow, and clouded
by the dark colour which prevails on the deeper portions of the fur. Toes
superiorly dark umber-brown ; the point of the muzzle reddish orange. Ears
pale sienna-yellow, freely pencilled with brown. Tail superiorly brownish
red, inferiorly dusky yellowish white. Eyes brownish black ; whiskers reddish
brown. The inner or concealed portion of the fur a dark slate colour.
Incisors of upper jaw yellow, shaded with reddish orange.
F orm, &c.—Head rather narrow, flat behind, anteriorly slightly arched;
muzzle rather compressed, and the hair on its point superiorly quite erect;
nostrils opening laterally; the tip of the nose about two lines in advance of
the anteriormost portion of the upper lip, the latter divided vertically. Ears
moderately large, rather long, rounded at the points, and slightly fleshy.
Body long and moderately robust; legs short; tail cylindrical and tapering
to the point, thinly beset with recumbent rigid hair, through which the cu-
ticular scales, arranged in rings, are distinctly visible, the tip with a slender
pencil of rather long and rigid hairs. The three middle toes of hinder feet