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THE BURMES# CIVET. 21.3 
certain roots. A good swimmer, it never has any hesitation 
in taking to the water. The young, in India, are born during 
the months of May and June; each litter including three or 
four cubs. 
The secretion from the glands placed in front of the scrotum 
of the male of this and other Civets, and in a corresponding 
position in the female, escapes by a number of small orifices 
into a kind of pouch with a long slit-like opening. From this 
receptacle the Civet of commerce is scraped out periodically 
by means of a kind of wooden spoon; the natives of many 
eastern countries keeping these animals in confinement for the 
sake of this product. ‘Two glands situated more posteriorly 
yield a secretion with a most noisome and offensive odour. 
III. THE MALABAR CIVET. VIVERRA CIVETTINA. 
Viverra civettina, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xxxi. p. 
332 (1862); Blanford, Mamm. Brit. India, p. 98 (1888) ; 
Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii. p. 236 (1891). 
Characters.—Size nearly as in the last; black rings on tail 
complete, but the light ones partially interrupted by a broken 
longitudinal dark stripe on the upper surface ; sides of body 
distinctly marked with dark spots; dorsal crest commencing 
on the head. First upper molar more quadrangular than in 
the preceding species. General ground-colour of fur distinctly 
yellowish. 
Distribution—The Malabar Coast, and the Wynad and Curg 
districts of Southern India. 
Iv. THE BURMESE CIVET. VIVERRA MEGASPILA. 
Viverra megaspila, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xxxi. 
p. 331 (1862); Blanford, Mamm. Brit. India, p. 99 
(1888); Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. il. p. 227 
(1891). 
Characters.—Size of the last ; a longitudinal black band down 
