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V ERTEBRATA. 





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THE BLACK B1NTURONG. — (See p. 177. J 



THE YIYERIUDES. 



This family includes a great number of animals, all much smaller than the bears, and having 

 i resemblance to the Civet, or Viverra, in form and habits. They are divided into several tribes, 

 as the Subursins, Viverrin*, and Mangoustes. 



THE STJBTJBSINS. 



This tribe derives its name — which means an inferior sort of bear — from the resemblance of 

 the race, ..in. and some other of its species, to the bear. 



THE KINKAJol". 



Genus KINKAJOU: Cercoleptes.—Of this genus there is a single species, the Makavibj oi 



Kink wor, or Kink uou Potto, C, caudivolvulus, a graceful animal, somewhat smaller than a cat. 



