GENERAL CHARACTERS.

Size large; ears moderate, ear from crown (taken in dry skin) 9 or 10

millimeters; eyes prominent; whiskers long and sensitive; fore feet

short and weak; hind feet long and powerful, provided with four

well-developed toes; tail very long, usually 30 to 40 per cent longer

than the body. Cranium triangular, the occiput forming the base and the

point of the nose the apex of the triangle, much flattened, auditory and

particularly mastoid bullae conspicuously inflated.

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