390 



CHINCHE. 



Viverra Mephitica. V.fusca dorso albo, linca longitudinaH tugra. 

 Brown W. with white back marked with a longitudinal black 



stripe. 



Viverra Mephitis. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 88. 

 Mephitic Weesel. Museum Leverianum, No. 4. p. 173. pi. 6. 

 Le Chinche. Buff". 13. p. 294. pi. 39. 



THIS species is rather smaller than the former 

 species. The head is small and flat, and the 

 snout sharp and lengthened. The whole animal 

 is of a blackish chocolate-brown, with a broad 

 bed of white on the back, divided by a stripe of 

 black, which sometimes passes along the whole 

 length of the back, and sometimes not much 

 more than half way from the tail, which is white 

 at the tip and sides, with the remainder like the 

 body; but it also varies with the tail all white or 

 parti-coloured : along the forehead is a narrow 

 white stripe reaching towards the neck. In man- 

 ners and smell this resembles the two preceding 

 animals. 



CHINGE. 



Viverra Chinge. V. nigra, cceruleo nitens, vitta macularum alba- 

 turn acapite ad caudam producta. 



Black W. with changeable cast of blue, with a row of white 

 spots from head to tail. 



Chinge. Molina Chili. 269. 



THIS, according to Molina, its first describer, 

 seems in shape and general form to resemble the 



