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rather long, loose hair, the under hair soft and short ; the tail more 

 than half the length of the head and body ; the hair of the tail very 

 loag and lax : the legs are rather short ; the toes five on each foot, 

 with short, strong, curved, rather acute claws ; the upper part of the 

 toes hairy ; the soles of the feet naked ; the fore feet ■with a thick 

 pad under each toe ; the palm fumished with a broad tubercle con- 

 sisting of three elevated portions, with a slight one internally, and a 

 round simple one at the wrist, behind the little or outer toe ; the 

 hinder foot ]ike\vise furnished with a thick pad beneath each toe, and 

 a broad trifid tubercle beneath the metatarsus ; there is also a long 

 tubercle beneath the heel, at the outer side : the whole of these parts, 

 that is to say the soles of all the feet, are covered with a soft naked 

 skin, and are evidently placed on the ground in progression. 



" The colours are very remarkable and the markmgs distinct and 

 decided. The whole of the upper part of the head, the neck, the 

 back, the flanks, and the tail, are a yellowish or light brownish grey, 

 produced by the mixture of a dirty yellowish -vs^hite -with browius_h 

 black, the hairs being brownįsh black for about two thirds of their 

 length, the tip dirty yellowish white ; the muzzle, the cheeks, the 

 throat, the under part of the neck, the belly, the anterior legs, and 

 tlie hinder feet, are black -vvith a bro\vnish tinge, lighter toward8 

 the back part, and on the belly interspersed -vvith a few whitish hairs ; 

 the grey of the upper, and the black of the under parts, are separated 

 by a rather broad fascia extending on each side from the centre of 

 the forehead above the eye backwards as far as the shoulder, in- 

 cluding the ears ; this fascia is of a bufF or yellowish white colour. 



" There is a large round foUicle situated on each side the anus, co- 

 vered with a musele, and opening by a round duct within the anai 

 orifice, secreting an unctuous matter, less fcetid than that of the 

 Polecat, but not possessing the rather agreeable odour of the Martin 

 or the powerful perfume of the Viverrce. The stomach is very siinple, 

 the pyloric extremity long, cylindrical, and curved; there is no 

 cacum. 



Galictis Allamandi. 



G. vertice, colio, dorso, atque caudd nigricanti-griseis ; partibus infe- 

 rioribus nigris ; fascid a fronte usque ad collum utrinque albd ; 

 corpore pilis brevibus adpressis. 

 Habitat. 



" This species, although evidently distinct from the former, exhibit6 

 the šame general character of colour and marking, with some remark- 

 able difFerences ho\vever. which, though not easily expressed in a 

 specific phrase, are tangible and important. The ^vhole of those 

 parts \vhich in the former species are yellowish are here perfectly 

 -white ; and those which are blackish brown in the former are in this 

 pure black. The base of the hairs on the back therefore is black, 

 and the tips quite white, forming a pure blackish grey, or black with 

 white points and lines ; whilst ^ the under parts of the throat and 

 front of the belly are black. ITie fascia extending from the forehead 

 back to the šides of the neck is also white. This fascia does not 



