Its length is fourteen inches, and its tail is seven inches long. In some of the other species the tail is as long as the body. Of the habits of these animals little is positively known, but they are said to feed upon fruits. They probably resemble the Flying Squirrels in their general mode of life. [Illustration: FULGENT ANOMALURE (From the _Proceedings of the Zoological Society_).] [Illustration: MOLAR TEETH OF THE ANOMALURE.] FAMILY III.--HAPLODONTIDÆ. This is another small family, smaller even than the preceding one, for it includes only a single known species, limited in its range to the western coast of North America. This is the Sewellel, a little Rodent, first observed by the American travellers, Lewis and Clarke, in 1805 or 1806, described in 1814 by Rafinesque under the name of _Anisonyx rufa_, and afterwards, in 1829, by Sir John Richardson, as the type of a new genus, as _Aplodontia leporina_. This generic name has been corrected, in accordance with its derivation, by more recent writers, to _Haplodon_, from which the name of the family has been formed. In this animal there are five molars in the upper and four in the lower jaw; the first upper molar is very small, and all these teeth are rootless, simple, and prismatic, the surface of each tooth being surrounded by a mere border of enamel. The skull is very flat, very wide behind, and furnished with large zygomatic arches; between the orbits and in front it is much contracted, and there are no post-orbital processes. In the lower jaw the angular portion is twisted so as to form a horizontal ridge. The body is stout and clumsy, the tail very short, and the claws of the fore feet (which are five-toed, as well as the hind ones) are very powerful; in fact, as Dr. Coues says, “The whole organisation, viewed externally, indicates terrestrial and highly fossorial habits.” The SEWELLEL (_Haplodon rufus_) is about a foot long, with a tail of an inch or an inch and a half; its colour is brownish, with an intermixture of black hairs, lighter and more greyish below. The whiskers, claws, and upper surface of the feet are whitish, and the incisor teeth yellow. It inhabits the Washington and Oregon territories, from the Rocky Mountains to the shores of the Pacific, and extends also into the southern portions of British Columbia and the upper parts of California.