No. 421 Lagomys Auritus. — The Large-eared Pika
Habitat.—Lukong, on the Pankong lake.
Description.—General colour above smoky or wood brown; the head, shoulders and rump rather paler and more rufous; lower parts whitish, with the dark basal portion of the hair showing through; fur very soft, moderately long; ears large, round, clothed rather thinly inside near the margin with whitish-brown hairs, and outside with much longer hairs of the same colour; whiskers fine and long, the upper dark brown, the lower white; feet whitish. (See Blanford’s ‘Sc. Res. Second Yarkand Mission,’ p. 75, plate vi. fig. 2.)
Size.—About 8 inches.
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