204 MR. T. BELL ON THE GENUS GALICTIS. 
to those of true Mustela, particularly M. putorius. The body is elongate and much 
depressed, covered with 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 long 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 furnished with a broad tubercle 
consisting 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 likewise 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 markings distinct and decided. The 
whole of the upper part of the head, the neck, the back, the flank, and the tail are 
yellowish light or brownish gray, produced by the mixture of a dirty yellowish white, 
with brownish black, the hairs being brownish black for about two-thirds of their 
length, the tip dirty or yellowish white. The muzzle, the cheeks, the throat, the 
under part of the neck, the belly, the anterior legs, and the hinder feet are black, with 
a brownish tinge lighter towards the back part, and on the belly interspersed with a 
few whitish hairs. The gray of the upper, and the black of the under parts, are sepa- 
rated by a rather broad fascia, extending on each side from the centre of the forehead - 
above the eye backwards as far as the shoulder, including the ears ; this fascia is of a 
buff or yellowish white colour. 
There is a large round follicle situated on each side the anus, covered with a muscle, 
and opening by a round duct within the anal orifice, secreting an unctuous matter, less 
fetid than that of the Polecat, but not possessing the rather agreeable odour of the 
Marten, or the powerful perfume of the Viverre. The stomach is very simple, the 
pyloric extremity long, cylindrical, and curved. There is no cecum, 
2. Gaxictis ALLAMANDI. 
Tas. XXXVII. 
Gal. vertice, collo, dorso, atque caudd nigricanti-griseis ; partibus inferioribus nigris ; 
fascid a fronte usque ad collum utrinque albé ; corpore pilis brevibus adpressis. 
Habitat ? 
This species, although evidently distinct from the former, exhibits the same general 
character of colour and marking, with some remarkable differences, however, which, 
though not easily expressed in a specific phrase, are tangible and important. The 
whole of those parts, which in the former species are yellowish, are here perfectly 
white; and those which are blackish brown in the former, are in this pure black. 
