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Itt. ater, Fr. Cuv. Mammif. Black ; muzzle whitish j size 

 that of a stout Dog. From Malacca.(l) 



Nasua, Storr. 



The Coatis, to the teeth, tail, nocturnal habit, and slow dragging 

 gait of the Raccoon, add a singularly elongated and flexible snout. 

 The feet are semi-palmate, notwithstanding which they climb trees. 

 Their long claws are used for digging. They inhabit the warm cli- 

 mates of America, and their diet is nearly the same as that of the 

 Marten of Europe. 



Viverra nasua^ L.; Buff. VIII, xlviii. (The Red Coati.) 

 Reddish fawn colour ; muzzle brown ; tail with brown rings. 



Viv. narica, L.j Buff, VIII, xlviii. (The Brown Coati.) 

 Brown, white spots over the eye and snout. 

 This is perhaps the only proper place for the singular genus of 

 the KiNKAjous or Potto, Cuv. Cercoleptes, lUig. which, to a 

 plantigrade walk, adds a long prehensile tail like that of the Sapa- 

 jous, a short muzzle, a slender and extensible tongue, two pointed 

 grinders before, and three tuberculous ones behind. 



Only one species is known, Viverra caudivolvula, Gm. ; Buff. 

 Supp. Ill, 1; and better, Fr. Cuv. Mammif. From the warm 

 parts of America and from the great Antilles, where it is called 

 Potto ; size of a Polecat ; hair woolly, and of a grey or yel- 

 lowish brown ; habits nocturnal, of a mild disposition, and lives 

 on fruit, milk, honey, blood, Sec. 



Meles, Storr. 



The Badgers, which Linnaeus placed with the Raccoons in the genus 

 Ursus, have a very small tooth behind the canine, then two pointed 

 molars followed in the upper jaw by one that we begin to recognize 

 as carnivorous from the trenchant vestige it exhibits on its outer 

 side; behind this is a square tuberculous one, the largest of all. Be- 

 low, the penultimate begins to show a resemblance to the inferior 

 carnivorous teeth, but as there are two tubercles on its internal 

 border as elevated as its trenchant edge, it acts as a tuberculous 

 one ; the last below is very small. 



The slow movements of the Badgers and their nocturnal habits are 

 like those of the preceding animals ; their tails are short, the toes 

 are much enveloped in the skin, and they are otherwise peculiarly 

 distinguished by a sac under the tail, from which oozes a fatty, 



(1) Add I'Jdide dore, Fred. Cuv. 

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