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VIVKERlD^^i. 



6. POIANA. 



Head small ; ears rounded. Body slender, elongate ; fur soft, close, 

 short, nearly uniform in length, spotted ; no central dark vertebral 

 line. Legs rather short. Feet hahy, cat-like ; toes 5/5, short ; 

 hind soles covered with hair ; with a short narrow naked line, forked 

 below, and onlj^ reaching to the middle of the foot above. Claws 

 retractile. Tail cylindrical, black-ringed. 

 Poiana, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 520. 



Ifab. Africa. 



Very like Linsang in external appearance, but with the feet of a 

 Genetta. 



Poiana Richardsoni. (Guinea Linsang.) B.M. 



Pale brown, black-spotted ; spots on the back larger, square ; spots 

 on sides and feet smaller, rounded. 



Linsang Richardsoni, Gerrard, Cat. Boties B. M. p. 72. 

 Yivei-ra geiicttoidi's, Tmiin. Eaq. Zool. p. 89, 1853? 

 Genetta 1-vichardsuni, Tlwmpson, Ann. N. H. 1842. 

 Genetta poensis (jun.), Waterh. P. Z. S. 1838, p. 59. 

 Poiana Ilichardsoiii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 520. 



Hah. West Africa: Fernando Po (jTAow^jsoh); Gvinen. {Temiu.). 

 Fit?. 8. 



Poiana Piclia) chont 



Skull and teeth very like Linsang ; but the brain-case is ovate 

 atid more ventricose. The orbits not deiincd behind, and confluent 

 with the tenipofal cavity; zygomatic arch stronger. The nose is 



