406 MALACCA WEESEL. 



native of India, and was first described and figured 

 by Mons. Sonnerat. 



MALACCA WEESEL. 



Viverra Malaccensis. V. cauda nigro annulata elongata, corpore 

 griseo supra nigro-guttato, maculis quatuor rotundis supra ocu- 

 los, fasdis colli dorsique tribus nigris. Lin. Syst, Nat. Gmel. 

 p. 92. 



Grey W. with longitudinal black stripes on the neck and rump, 

 and round black spots on the sides. 



La Civette de Malacca. Swmer. voy. 2. p. 144. pi. 91. 



THIS, a native of Malacca, is one of those ani- 

 mals which we owe to the assiduity of Mons. Son- 

 nerat. He says it is of the size of a domestic Cat, 

 and that it has the same character and manners. 

 The whole animal is of a pearl-grey, deepest on 

 the upper parts: the snout is longish; the ears 

 small and round, and the limbs short; the claws 

 five in number, weak, crooked, and retractile. 

 The top of the head is black ; and it has four 

 round black spots above each eye, situated longi- 

 tudinally : the eyes are small and black ; the pu- 

 pil, in some views, oblong. Over the neck run 

 three longitudinal black bands, commencing be- 

 hind the head, and terminating at the shoulders ; 

 and three other bands commence over the loins 

 and terminate at the tail: there is also another 

 band running along the middle of the belly. On 

 each side the body and thighs are thirty round black 



