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white band interposes immediately above the black 

 tip ; the face and legs are brown, without the black 

 streak on the shins, and the sides more mixed with 

 pale grey. 



Mons. Fred. Cuvier regards the Aguarachay of 

 d'Azara as the C cinereo argenteus of authors, but 

 there is no resemblance in the colours, figure, or 

 manners ; one belongs to South and the other to 

 North America. The Guaracha barks, lives on 

 terms without restraint when brought up in the 

 house, his manners resembling those of the C, Me- 

 soleucus ; the young are blackish and white. The 

 three coloured animal is a true fux, of which we 

 have seen several in a living state, but always 

 chained, having the nocturnal eye, the odour, and 

 instinct of foxes ; and of a great number of skins 

 we examined, there was not one without the space 

 of true fox colour behind the ears and on the joints, 

 though some were rather darker than others in the 

 fur on the back ; the colour was a purer grey, often 

 silvery. 



On reconsidering the varieties of this last species 

 we are inclined to conclude that our figure of Cer^ 

 docyon cancrivorus represents the young, of which 

 Prince Maximilian of Wied's Ganis Azarce is the 

 adult, and our Guaracha only a different race of the 

 same species. 



