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WHITE-CHEEKED WEESEL. 



Viverra Quadricolor. V. cinereo flavescens, gida flaw, capitc, 

 cntribus, caudaqve nigris, genis mentoque attns. 



Yellow-cinereous W. with black head, legs, and tail, bright-yel- 

 low throat, and white cheeks and chin. 



White-cheeked Weesel. Pennant Quadr. 2. p. 52. 



THIS animal measured from nose to tail eigh- 

 teen inches, and the tail the same : the ears were 

 rounded; the nose broad and blunt: the head flat; 

 the irides dusky; the face, crown, legs,, rump, 

 and tail, black : the back and belly pale yellow 

 intimately mixed with cinereous ; the throat of a 

 rich yellow, and the chin and cheeks white. 



It was described by Mr. Pennant from a living 

 specimen in 1772. Its native place Avas unknown. 



PEKAN. 



Viverra Canadensis. 



Mustela Canadensis. M. corpore fuko nigrkante, pectore ma- 

 cula alba. Um. Syst. Nat. p. 95. 

 Blackish-fulvous W. with white pectoral spot. 

 Le Pekan. Bujf. 13 p. 304. pi. 42. Pennant Quadr. a. p. 51. 



THIS species has the shape of a Martin, and is 

 more than a foot and half in length from nose to 

 tail ; the tail being near one foot long. Its gene- 

 ral colour is black-fulvous, with a white patch be- 

 tween the fore legs, and on the sides of the body 

 is a tinge of grey : the ears are a little pointed : 



