COASSE. 



Viverra Vulpccula. V. tola castanea, naso producto. Lin. Syst. 



Nat. Gmel. p.Sj. 



Dark chesnut-coloured "W. with lengthened snout. 

 Coasse. Buff. 13. p. 288. pi. 38. 



THIS animal is about the size of the Polecat; 

 measuring eighteen inches from nose to tail : the 

 tail is long and full of hair: the whole animal is 

 of a deep or blackish chocolate-colour, but the 

 tail is sometimes mixed with white. It is a na- 

 tive of M exico and many other parts of America, 

 and possesses the power of emitting, when at- 

 tacked or irritated, such powerfully offensive ef- 

 fluvia, as, in most instances, effectually to discom- 

 fit and repel its pursuers. 



STRIATED WEESEL. 



Viverra Striata. 



Viverra Putorius. V. nigricans, lineis qitlnque dorsalibus paral- 



klis albis. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 87. 

 Blackish W. with five parallel, white, dorsal stripes. , 



Mustela nigra, taeniis in dorso albis. Briss. Quadr.p. 181. 

 Striated Weesel. Pennant Quadr. 2. p. 64. 

 Conepate. Buff. 83 . p. 288. pi. 40. 



IT has been imagined, and not without a de- 

 gree of probability, that this animal is the female 

 of the former. It is of the same size and general 

 aspect, but is distinguished by five parallel longi- 



