THE PALM-CIVETS 



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ental linsangs, and, with the exception of some stripes on the back of the head, and 

 a line extending from the neighborhood of the ear to the shoulder, do not run to- 

 gether into lines or patches. The tail is peculiar in that the light rings separating 

 the large dark bands are divided in the middle by very narrow dark rings. 



THE PALM-CIVETS 

 Genus Paradoxurus 



The palm-civets, tree-cats, or toddy-cats, as they are indifferently called, form 

 an Asiatic group, with a single outlying West African species, of civet-like animals, 



THE COMMON PAI.M-CIVET. 



(One-fifth natural size.) 



differing in several important respects from all the preceding types, which are more 

 or less closely allied. The number of the teeth is the same as in the true civets ; 

 but the individual teeth are usually much smaller in proportion to the size of the 

 skull ; and the flesh-teeth are by no means of such a markedly cutting type. There 

 are also important distinctions in the structure of the skull. In most cases the tail 

 is uniformly colored, or only ringed at its base. Moreover, all these animals are 

 largely of arboreal habits. 



The typical palm-civets, constituting the genus Paradoxurus, are exclusively 

 Asiatic, ranging from India and Burma through the Malayan region to the south of 



