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have small chance of escape; for some were searching along the ground, whilst others 
ranged over the branches of the trees.” 
Messrs. Godman and Salvin tell me that “the Pisoti is one of the commonest animals 
in Guatemala, being found in forests at elevations ranging from 8000 and 9000 feet to 
the lowland woods of the coast-region. Specimens were often brought to us by Indian 
hunters, who caught them in the neighbourhood of Duefias, either in the forests of 
the volcano or on the slopes of the mountains at a lower level. It is an animal easily 
tamed, and one very often seen in Spanish houses, chained to one of the pillars of 
the corridor surrounding the courtyard.” 
Dr. Weinland first drew the attention of European zoologists to the existence in 
Mexico of a Nasua which had been overlooked since Hernandez’s day, and which he 
described as a variety of the Brazilian ™. solitaria (=N. rufa)’. M. de Saussure 
added further observations, following Prince Maximilian’s specific distinction of the 
Tejon de mannada and Tejon solo®. Since then, as will be seen from our list of loca- 
lities, Coatis have been collected in many parts of Mexico, especially by the energetic 
agents of the Smithsonian Institution. 
5, CERCOLEPTES. 
Potos, Cuvier, Lecons d’Anat. Comp., i. 1" Tabl. (1800)*. 
Kinkajou, Lacépéde, Mém. de V’Inst. Nat. iii. p. 492 (1801)*. 
Cercoleptes, Illiger, Prod. Syst. Mamm. p. 127 (1811). 
The only known species of this genus f was formerly sometimes placed among the 
Insectivores, or even with the Lemurs, till Professor Owen’s description of its anatomy} 
placed its natural affinities beyond doubt. Its form is still more elongated than that 
of the Cacomistle or the Coati; the head is rounded, the muzzle pointed, the tongue . 
extensile, and the tail long and strongly prehensile. The compression of the canines 
is still more marked than in Vaswa, and there is a premolar less above and below than 
in the other genera of the family. 
1. Cercoleptes caudivolvulus. 
Viverra caudivolvula, Pallas, in Schreber’s Saugth. iii. p. 453, pl. cxxv. B (anté 1777, descr. orig.)’. 
Cercoleptes caudivolvulus, Tomes, P. Z. 8S. 1861, p. 280°; Frantzius, Arch. f. Naturg. xxxv. 1, 
p- 291°; Dugés, La Nat. i. p. 137°. 
Martica of Mexicans‘. 
Micoleon of Guatemalans. 
Martilla of Costa-Ricans 4. 
Hab. Muxtco (Liebmann, Mus. Hafn.), near City of Mexico (Dugés*); GuareMmana, 
* Both these barbarous names are fortunately insufficiently characterized (see footnote to page 3). 
+ The separation of Martin’s C. megalotus and C. brachyotus (P. Z.8. 1836, p. 83) appears, to use Gray’s 
words, to have depended only on the artifice of the preserver. + P.Z.S. 1835, pp. 119-124. 
