Mammalia. 95 



Leii^rth from nose to tail twenty-two inches ; length of tail 

 about nineteen inches. 

 Inhabits South Africa. 



Chat-Bozaam, Vnsmaor, Dissert, d' une Espece Sivguliere 

 de chat Africain, A"ist.\ll\. Tigrine Weasel, Shaw, Ger.. 

 Zool. Musk Cat of tlie Colonists. 



Genelta Felina, Thunb. (Thunberg's Genet.) Hair rather 

 long, particularly on the centre of the back. Surface colour 

 grey or greyish white, variegated with narrow black stripes and 

 spots ; the former are several in number, but three are par- 

 ticularly distinct, viz. one between the hindhead and base of 

 the tail, and one on each side of the upper part of the neck, 

 which, on reaching the shoulders, take a direction obliquely 

 downwards and terminate at their hinder edges ; neck and 

 shoulders below the latter, with small black stripes and spots ; 

 sides of body, with four or more longitudinal rows of small 

 black spots, those of the two uppermost rows largest ; outersides 

 of extremities towards body spotted with black, the rest of the 

 hinder extremities black, with the exception of a white blotch 

 on their inner sides towards the feet, and on the upper surface 

 of each toe towards its extremity ; anterior parts of fore legs 

 and upper surface of feet, white pencilled with black, else- 

 where brownish black. From nose to hind-head a narrow 

 indistinct brownish black stripe ; eyebrows, a spot under the 

 eyes and one behind each nostril, white ; the space between the 

 two last black ; eyes brown ; ears without, black at base, red- 

 dish wliite elsewhere ; within bare, with a margin of white 

 hairs ; sides of head greyish, pencilled with black ; under parts 

 of neck and body greyish white indistinctly mottled with black- 

 ish spots ; tail annulated alternately black and white, about 

 nineteen rings ; the last forming- the extremity, hrownish black 

 above, whitish beneath ; the black rings much narrower than 

 the white ones. Woolly hairs dull brownish black. Length 

 from nose to tail twenty-four inches ; length of tail twenty-two 

 inches. 



Inhabits South Africa, — rare near Cape Town, common about 

 Latakoo. 



Musk Cat of the Colonists. 



Genus Proteles. Geoffroy. 



Incisors «, canines \ \, cheek teeth J J, — 30. Incisors trenchant 

 and divided by a furrow on the outer side ; the canines are sharp, 

 and those of lower jaw a little curved', cheekteeth, both above 

 and below, much separated from each other, the three first above 

 false molars wUk a single point, the last a small tuberculous 



