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GWATKIN'S CTiLIDICTIS. 



PLATE VII. 

 Galidktis dtrysogaster^ NOB. 



BACK, shoulders, and legs, black ; body deep brown- 

 ish, paler on the flanks ; the throat white ; breast 

 and abdomen orange-tawny; digitigrade; toes cat 

 like ; claws white ; tail long ; total length forty-two 

 inches. Is fetid ; sits up erect, gambols actively, 

 ascends trees, and leaps from one to another ; barks 

 with a distinct hoarse note. Female exactly like 

 the male. Specimen shot at Mussorie in the Hima- 

 layas. From notes of Reynolds Gwatkin, Esq. 



Genus VIVERRA. The Civets. We now arrive 

 at the typical genus of the Vwerridae, itself con- 

 stituting a small group of sub-generical forms, seve- 

 ral of the species being once held important in the 

 Pharmacopoeia of nations, and of great interest to 

 the fashionable world, on account of the so called 

 musk, deemed valuable for scenting clothes, and 

 still esteemed in Asia. The species stands higher 

 on the legs than the other allied genera; their 

 dentition is , \-\, -f = 40 ; the nose pointed ; 

 eyes linear ; feet pentadactylous, digitigrade ; tail 

 long, beneath which is the pouch, wherein an odo- 



