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as long as broad, and ending forwards in a cartilaginous snout 

 (Baird). Ears short, rounded. Toes 5.5. Claws strong, acute. 

 Tail elongate. 



Skull elongate. Nose produced, compressed. Teeth 40. Cutting- 

 teeth moderate ; outer ones elongate, conical ; four central upper in 

 an arched line, rather in front of the lateral teeth ; lower shelving 

 out in front. Canines large ; the lower strong, sharp-edged behind ; 

 the upper compressed, conical, and bent out at the ends. Grinders 

 f . f ; the three front conical, compressed ; the fourth like the flesh- 

 tooth. The tubercidar triangular, similar to the flesh-tooth. Lower 

 jaw without any prominent angle behind. 



Nasua, Storr.; Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 701. 

 Coati, Lac^j)bde. 



1. Nasua rofa. B.M. 



Fur fulvous ; back darker ; sides of nose and head ashy ; tail ful- 

 vous and black-ringed. 



Viverra nasua, Lhm. S. N. i. p. 64; Schreb. Sdugeth. 1. 118. 



Ursus nasua, Cumer, Tab. Elem. p. 113, 1798. 



Nasua rufa, Desm. Mamm. p. 170; Gray, Cat, Mamm. B. M. p. 74; 



P. Z. S. 1804, p. 701. 

 Nasua socialis, var., Pr. Max. Beitr. ii. p. 283. 

 Nasua socialis or N. rufa, Fischer, Si/n. Mamm. p. 148. 

 Coatimonde, Perr. Anim. ii. p. 15, t. 37; Shau\ Zool. i. p. 38-'5. 

 Coati uoiratre, Biiffuii, II. N. 



Coati roux, Cuiier, Rh/. An. i. p. 144; F. C/icicr, Mamm. Lithoyr.t. 

 Brazilian Weasel, Penit. Si/n. p. 229, t. 22. f. 1. 

 Coati, Marct/r. Brazil, p. 228. 

 Myrmecopliaga anniUata, Desm. Mamm. (ffoni Krusenstern's Voy. t.) ; 



Griffith, A. K. t. (figui'e altered). 

 MjTmecophaga striata, Shaw, Zool. i. p. 51, 1786. 

 Tamandua , Buffon, II. K. Supp. lii. t. 50. 



Mr. Turner (P. Z. S. 1851, p. 218) professes to have rediscovered 

 the fact (though it is stated in the ' Catalogue of the Mammalia in 

 the British Museum,' p. 74, 1843) that Krusenstern's M. annulata 

 in onl}' a Coati-momli ; but he is puzzled to explain the figure in 

 Grifiitii's ' Animal Kingdom.' This figure is engraved from a draw- 

 ing of Major Hamilton Smith's, no doubt copied from Krusenstern's 

 figiu'c, but altered and improved, as was his habit when making his 

 very large collection of drawings — a bad habit, that has rendered 

 them of comparatively small value for scientific purposes, as it is im- 

 possible to determine whether they arc from a figure or a specimen. 



2. Nasua narica. B.M. 



Fur blackish brown, beneath yelIo\dsh ; head ashy; tail black 

 and yellow, obsciavlj- ringed. The sides of the nose arc sometimes 

 marked with a black and white streak. 



Viverra narica, Linn. S. X. i. p. 04; Schreb. Siiugeth. t. 1 19. 

 l^rsiis narica, Cuvicr, Tab. Elem. p. 113, 1798. 

 ^'iverra quasie, Gmelin, S. X. i. p. 87. 



