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C. decussalus, Geoff. Fur variegated with black and white above, 

 with a black cross on the shoulders. Inhabits North America. 



C. Virginianus, Gmel. Gray Fox. Body entirely silvery gray, with 

 a shade of red about the ears. North America Catesby,ii. t. 78. 



C.falvus, Desm. Fur reddish or fulvous ; breast gray ; face of the 

 fore-legs and feet black, with fulvous toes ; tip of the tail white. 

 United States Mam. p. 203. 



C. velox, Say. Fur fulvous ; head above ferruginous. About one- 

 half the size of the preceding Long's Exped. i. p. 486. 



C. cinereo-argenteus, Lin. Upper part of the body grayish black ; 

 ears and sides of the neck bright red ; throat and cheeks white ; 

 tail yellow, mixed with black. N. America. Schreb. tab. 92, A. 



C. Nilolicus, Geoff. Body reddish above, gray below, behind the 

 ears black ; legs fulvous. Inhabits Egypt Desm. Mam. 204. 



C. megalolis, Cuv. Fur gray ; ears very large, broad and long ; a 

 line of longer blackish hairs on the spine ; feet black. Cape of 

 Good Hope. Griff, ii. 374. 



C. Brucei, (Fennecus Brucei, Desm.) Bruce's Fennec. Fur dirty 

 white, belly lighter ; ears thin, margined with white hairs. In- 

 habits Abyssinia. Shaw, i. pi. 80. M. Desmarest makes a ge- 

 nus of this species under the name of Fennecus. 



Gen. 74. VIVERRA, Lin. Cuv. Geoff. Desm. 



Incisors J, canines }-J, molars - = 40. Three false molars 

 in the upper jaw, conical and compressed, a large carnivorous 

 bicuspid tooth, and two tuberculous ones ; in the lower, four 

 false molars, one bicuspid and one tuberculous ; head long ; 

 muzzle pointed; feetpentadactyle; claws semiretractile ; anal 

 pouch more or less deep. 



Sub-Gen. 1. CIV.ETTES, proper. Anal pouch very deep, divided into 

 - two sacsjjilled with a musky secretion. 



V. civetta, Lin. The Civet. Fur gray, with brown or black stripes 

 and spots; a mane along the dorsal line. Inhabits Africa. 

 i Shaw, i. pi. 95. 



The odoriferous substance produced by the Civet forms in the east an object of 

 commerce. This substance is secreted in a bag or pouch between the anus and parts 

 of generation, and is similar in both sexes. It opens externally by a narrow cleft, 

 which conducts into two cavities, each of which might contain an almond. The in- 

 ternal surface of these bags is slightly covered with hair and porous, and the musk 

 is exuded from these pores into the bag. When the bag is nearly full the animal 

 has the power of compressing it so as to extrude the superfluous part of the secretion. 



V. zibetha, Lin. The Zibet. Fur gray ; legs transversely spotted 

 with brown ; throat white, with two black bands on each side ; 

 no mane ; tail annulated with black. India. Shaw, i. pi. 95. 



V. rasse, Horsf. Fur yellowish gray ; neck obscurely banded with 

 black lines ; feet brown. Inhabits Java. Horsf. Java, vi. 

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