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y. Unsung, Ilardwick, Lin. Trans. XIII. pi. xxiv; Felis gracilis, 

 Horsf. Java. (The Javanese Genet). Several irregular, brown, 

 transverse bands on the body, and seven rings round the tail. 



r. fossa, Buff. XIII. XX. (The Fossane of Madagascar). Tail, 

 flanks, and all above, fawn colour ; the legs and all beneath a yellow- 

 ish white ; reddish brown spots, those on the back forming four lon- 

 gitudinal bands; tail semi-annulated w^ith red, and only half the 

 length of the body*. 



V. rasse, Horsf. Jav. (The Rasse). Legs brown ; body greyish 

 brown, with small brown spots united on the crupper, and forming 

 five longitudinal lines. Tail shorter than the body, annulated with 

 black and white, the black rings six or seven in number -f. The 

 hair is harsher than in the preceding species. The 



Paradoxurus, Fr. Ctiv. 

 has the teeth and most of the characters of the Genets, with which it was 

 a long time confounded; it is however more stout-limbed; the feet arc 

 semi-palmate, and the walk nearly plantigrade ; but what particularly dis- 

 tinguishes it is the spiral inclination of the tail, which is not prehensile. 

 Only one species is known, the 



P. typus, Fr. Cuv. (The Pougoune of India). A yellowish- 

 brown, with some spots of a deeper brown than the rest; the feet, 

 muzzle, and part of the tail blackish; eye-brows white, and a white 

 spot under the eye. The French of Pondicherry call it the Palm 

 Martin or Marie des palmier s\,. 



Mangusta, Cuv. — Herpestes, Illig. 



The pouch voluminous and simple ; the anus pierced in its depth. The 

 hairs are annulated with light and obscure tints, which determine their 

 general colour on the eye. 



The Mangouste of Egypt, so celebrated among the ancients under 

 the name of Ichneumon; Viverra ichneumon, L. ; Buff. Supp. Ill, 



No. 280, under tlie improper name of Fossane. It is the variety most frequently 

 brought from the Cape. There is another taken from a young specimen, Brovra, 

 111. pi. xliii, still under the name of Fossane. It is distinguished by its whitish and 

 not brown legs, and we have seen a similar one from Senegal. That of Buff. IX. 

 xxxvi, has not the bands on the neck and shoulders sufficiently marked. The num- 

 ber of black rings on the tail varies from nine to eleven. The Civette de Malacca 

 of Sonnerat, Voy. II. pi. xxxix, which is the same as the Genette du Cap, Buff. 

 Supp. VII. pi. Iviii, and the Chat bisaam of Vosmaer, of which Gmelin has made as 

 many species, appear to be common Genets. 



* Description taken from the original sent to BufTon by Poivre, and engraved, 

 Hist. Nat. XIII. pi. XX. The description of Daubenton is correct so far as regards 

 the distribution of the spots; but he calls them Hack, whereas they are reddish. Be- 

 .sides, this animal can hardly be the fossa of Flacourt, which that author states is the 

 size of the Badger. The Fossane has the same furrow as the Genet, notwithstand- 

 ing the assertion of Poivre to the contrary. 



t It is probably Vanimal du muse of La Peyronie, Acad, des Sc. 1728, pi. xxiv. 

 p. 464, which had been confounded with the Zibelh— hut that animal is larger, and 

 has other colours. To this division we must refer the Viv. fasciata, Gm. ; Buff. 

 Supp. VII. Ivii. 



X It is the pretended Genette de France' oi Buffon, Supp. III. pi. xlvii, the Civctle 

 a bandeau of Geoff. 



