110 MAMMALIA. 



frequents the edges of brooks, near springs, &c. The skin 

 forms an important article of trade. 



V. Ii7isangf Hardwick, Lin. Trans. XIII, pi. xxiv; Felis gra- 

 cilis, Horsf. Java. (The Javanese Genet.) Several irregular, 

 brown, transverse bands on the body, and seven rings round the 

 tail. 



F. fossa, Buff. XIII, xx. (The Fossane of Madagascar.) 

 Tail, flanks, and all above fawn colour j the legs and all beneath 

 a yellowish white ; reddish brown spots, those on the back 

 forming four longitudinal bands j tail semi-annulated with red, 

 and only half the length of the body-(l) 



V. rasse, Horsf Jav. (The Rasse.) Legs brown ; body 

 greyish brown, with small brown spots united on the crupper, 

 and forming five longitudinal lines. Tail shorter than the 

 body, annulated with black and white, the black rings six or 

 seven in number .(2) The hair is harsher than in the preceding 

 species. The 



Paradoxurus, Fr. Cuv. 



Has the teeth and most of the characters of the Genets, with 

 which it was a long time confounded; it is however more stout- 

 limbed ; the feet are semi-palmate, and the walk nearly plantigrade, 

 but what particularly distinguishes it is the spiral inclination of the 

 tail, which is not prehensile. Only one species is known, the 



P. typus, Fr. Cuv. (The Pougoune of India.) A yellowish- 

 brown, with some spots of a deeper brown than the rest ; the 

 feet, muzzle and part of the tail blackish ; eye-brows v/hite, and 



quently brought from the Cape. There is another taken from a young- specimen. 

 Brown, 111. pi. xliii, still under the name of Fossane. It is distinguished by its whi- 

 tish and not brown legs, and we have seen a similar one from Senegal. That of 

 Buff. IX, xxxvi, has not the bands on the neck and shoulders sufficiently 

 marked. The number of black rings on the tail varies from nine to eleven. 

 The Civette de Malacca of Sonnerat, Voy. 11, pi. xxxix, which is the same as the 

 Genette du Cap, Buff. Supp. VII, pi. Iviii, and the Chat bisaam of Vosmaer, of 

 which Gmelin has made as many species, appear to be common Genets. 



(1) Description taken from the original sent to Buffon by Poivre, and engraved. 

 Hist. Nat. XIII, pi. XX. The description of Daubenton is correct so fur as re- 

 gards the distribution of the spots ; but he calls them black, whereas tliey are red- 

 dish. Besides, this animal can hardly be the fossa of Flacourt, which that author 

 states is the size of the Badger. The Fossane has the same furrow as the Genet, 

 notwithstanding the assertion of Poivre to tlie contrary. 



(2) It is probably f animal du muse of La Peyronie, Acad, des Sc. 1728, pi. 

 xxiv, p. 464, which had been confounded with the Zibeth^hut that animal is 

 larger, and has other colours. To this division we must refer the Viv.fasciatay 

 Gm.; Buff. Supp. VII, Ivii. 



