Large jird. Above yellow-brown, rather dark. Below, white with clear demarcation marked by a strip of yellow to orange-yellow along the flanks and onto the outer forelegs and hind legs. Underside with variable amounts of pale yellow. Feet white with narrow flank strip sometimes extending to them. Claws pale. Soles of hind feet partially haired. Head as upper parts, but with gray spots above and below eye. Sparse hair on ears, with small, whitish patch at back. Tail long, paler than upper parts and not distinctly bicolored. Tuft black extending along terminal quarter of the tail.