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much larger than others, these being worn and blunted at the point, 
while the smaller ones were sharp ; also that the series of claws on 
each foot were irregular as to their sizes, and that the corresponding 
claws on the opposite feet in some cases differed greatly in size; so 
that it would appear, that in the absence of the scratching propensity, 
the claws scale off naturally, and to a much larger extent at a time 
than in the Cats. I have occasionally noticed my living specimen with 
a claw apparently loose, but the casting off of the outer layer of the 
nail is a difficult thing to verify by actual observation. 
On one occasion, my specimen having escaped from his cage, on my 
seizing him by the neck for the purpose of replacing him therein, he 
made use of his claws to defend himself, just as a cat would naturally 
be expected to do; while it is well known that any animal of the dog 
tribe, being seized in that manner, is helpless, having no instinct 
prompting him to make use of his extremities against his captor; in 
this tribe also the paws are never used for seizing, but only for the 
purposes of locomotion, and to steady the prey upon the ground, 
while the teeth perform their office. The positions sometimes assumed 
by the Paradoxurus in a state of repose, also resemble those of the 
cat; for instance, it frequently lowers the body between the fore-paws, 
approximating the shoulder to the foot, while the elbow remains raised 
by the side: the canine animals, on the other hand, never crouch with- 
out applying the elbow to the ground. The Paradoxurus again re- 
sembles the Cat in the habit of occasionally bending the head verti- 
cally beneath the neck while asleep, a position never assumed by the 
Dog. 
In all the anatomical characters which in my former communica- 
tion I assigned to the Felidee (in which family the viverrine section is 
included), the Paradoxurus fully agrees ; those presented by the gene- 
rative and odoriferous organs are the most remarkable. There is no 
true musk-bag, simply the two secerning pouches situated one on each 
side the anus, which are so common among the carnivora. In addition 
to these, there is at the base of the prepuce, an oval, flat, naked space, 
which is not simply a secreting surface, as stated by Mr. Gray in a 
paper contributed to the Proceedings a few years back, but contains 
a number of minute orifices, each opening into a somewhat cylindrical 
glandular sac: these are arranged vertically side by side, and, toge- 
ther with the anal pouches, secrete the substance which imparts to 
the animal its characteristie odour. The generative organs are alto- 
gether very largely developed ; the prostate is large, of a slightly 
lobulated form, and the urethra passes obliquely through its centre. 
Cowper’s glands, whose presence is characteristic of the Felide, are 
remarkably large, causing a prominence externally posterior to the 
scrotum ; and, as usual in the family, each is surrounded by a power- 
ful muscular envelope, which is at least an eighth of an inch in thick- 
ness ; the fibres converge to a tendinous portion, which extends, from 
the point where the duct issues, some distance on each side of the 
gland ; the size of these organs altogether is about equal to that of 
the testes. The length of the penis, from the orifices of Cowper’s 
duct to the meatus urinarius, is a little more than three inches ; it is 
