408 TIGERINE WEESEL. 



The tail is annulated with black, and slightly 

 tufted with black at the end: the ears short, 

 rounded, and naked, and within of a fine pink- 

 colour. It is said to be a native of Cochin-China. 



TIGERINE WEESEL. 



Viverra Tigrina. V. cauda annulata, apicefusca, curpore tinereo 

 fusco-maculato, stria a capite ad caudam producta nigra. Ian. 

 Syst. Nat. Gmd.p. 91. 



Yellowish-grey W. with brown variegations, annulated tail tip- 

 ped with black, and a black stripe from head to tail. 



Chat-Bizaam. Vosmaer descr. Amst. 1771. 



Blotched Cat. Pennant Quadr. i.p. 298. 



THIS animal was described by Mr. Vosmaer, 

 from a specimen shewn at Amsterdam. It is of 

 the size of a Cat, and of mild manners. The 

 body is of a cinereous brown-colour, with a black 

 stripe from head to tail, and spotted on the sides 

 with brown: the tail is annulated, and has a 

 brown tip. Mr. Pennant, in the last edition of 

 his History of Quadrupeds, refers this animal to 

 the Genus Felis, and, indeed, from Mr. Vosmaer 's 

 figure, it should seem to have, at least, equal af- 

 finity to that genus as to the present. Mr. Schre- 

 ber, however, makes it a Viverra. 



