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toes, claws, and genital organs ; while it resembles the former 

 in the extraordinary anal pouch, in consequence of which M. F. 

 Cuvier has distinguished by the name of Crossarchus the new 

 genus of which it forms the type ; the single species described, 

 and of which only one individual is known, being termed 

 obscurus. 



The snout of the Mangue is very moveable, and prolonged half 

 an inch beyond the jaws. It is terminated by a muzzle, on the 

 margins of which the nostrils are situated, nearly as in the Dog. 

 The tongue is free, and capable of considerable elongation ; in the 

 middle it is armed with corneous papillae, its sides being soft. 

 The eyes possess a third imperfect eyelid, and their pupils are 

 round. The ears are small and rounded, with two very promi- 

 nent laraelliform lobes placed one above the other in their con- 

 cavity. The fur is composed of two kinds of hairs, both of which 

 are rough. The woolly ones are numerous, but are covered 

 almost entirely by the silky ones, some of which are an inch and 

 a half long ; they are however very short on the head and limbs, 

 and the tail appears to be furnished with them only on its upper 

 and under surfaces, those of the sides inclining in these directions, 

 perhaps because the animal habitually sleeps on it in such a man- 

 ner as to produce this effect. The hairs of the whole body are 

 not laid in similar directions and sleek, as is usually the case in 

 healthy animals ; on the contrary they incline irregularly in va- 

 rious directions, a deviation from general appearances, which is 

 also exhibited in a minor degree by some of the Mangoustes. 

 The tail is not so long as that of the Mangoustes ; it is not suffered 

 to drag upon the ground, neither is it carried above the back, its 

 usual position being curved downwards. 



The colour of this new animal is brown throughout, being paler 

 on the head, and slightly yellower on the anterior than on its 

 posterior parts; an appearance which results from the hairs being 

 deep brown at their base and tipped with yellow, and this latter 

 portion of them being longer towards the neck and shoulders than 

 on the hinder part and thighs. Length of the head, three inches 

 and a half ; of the body, eight; of the tail, seven : medium height, 

 live inches. 



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