720 CLASS XVII. 



Cuv., Burr. Suppl. VI. PL 32 ; ruddy brown ; in Brasil. I have given 

 figures of the skull and the teeth in Nov. A ct. A cad. Cces. Leop. Carol, xix. 

 i, 1838, Tab. xx. figs. 2, 3, 5. 



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Nasua STORE. Molar teeth ^ g ( as m *^ e P rece ding genus, 



but smaller, the inferior narrower ; canine teeth compressed, with 

 apex acuminate). Nose produced into a mobile proboscis, with 

 upper margin acute, somewhat prominent. Toes conjoined by skin. 

 Claws compressed, incurved, large. Tail long. (Dental formula as 

 in the preceding genus.) 



A genus very closely allied to the preceding, so that the two might 

 perhaps be united without violence, as I did formerly (first edition of 

 this Handbook, II. p. 642, Nov. Act. Cces. Leop. Carol, xix. i, pp. 183, 

 184). These animals, with the racoons, represent in the new world 

 the Lemurids of the Eastern hemisphere. They climb trees, living partly, 

 and even by preference, on fruits, hunt small birds, and eat eggs with 

 avidity. Compare MAXIM. Beitrdge zur Naturgesch. von Bras. II. s. 283 

 292, BURMEISTER Uebersichl der Thiere Bras. s. 117 121. Sp. Nasua, 

 socialis PRINC. MAXIM., Viverra nasua L., Nasua rufa DESMAR., BUFF. 

 Till. PL 47 (cop. in SCHREB. Saugth. Tab. 118), GUER. Iconogr., Mammif. 

 PL 13, fig. 3 (and Viverra narica L., BUFF. vni. PL 48, SCHREB. Saugth. 

 Tab. 119). The Coati; Brasil, Surinam. According to the Prince of 

 NEUWIED the colours cannot determine any difference of species; these 

 animals are brown or ruddy, with a long tail which shews black rings 

 more or less conspicuously. Of the skull and the teeth I have given a 

 figure loc. tit. figs, i, 4, 6. The Prince of NEUWIED adopts a second (larger) 

 species under the name of Nasua solitaria, which has also been recognised 

 as distinct by RENGGER and LUND. (Nasua montana TSCHUDI, Fauna 

 peruana Tab. v. : is it distinct from Nasua solitaria ?) 



jElurus (Ailurus) F. Cuv. Molar teeth ^ , a single uni- 



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cuspidate false molar above on each side, the other four tuberculate, 

 two tuberculate teeth on each side below. Ears rounded, small. 

 Claws incurved, compressed, semi-retractile. Tail lax, moderate, at 

 the base thick, villose. 



Sp. jElurus fulgens F. Cuv., Mammif. Livrais. 50, GUERIN Iconogr., Mam- 

 mif. PL 12, fig. 3, Cuv. R. Ani., ed. ill., Mammif. PL 31, fig. 2; HARD- 

 WICKE, who equally with DUVAUCEL (or perhaps before), discovered this 

 animal, has given a description and figure of the teeth, which I have not 

 be,en able myself to investigate, Linncean Transact, xv. i, pp. 161 165, 

 PL II. (I should almost suppose that there is a small molar tooth behind 

 the incisors which has fallen out, and that the normal number is six, as in 

 Nasua.) The animal lives in Nepaul, attains the size of a large domestic 

 cat, is chestnut-brown above, has breast, belly and legs black; the head is 

 whitish with a red-brown spot under the eyes ; the tail is red-brown with 

 some darker rings. 



