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THE GENETTS. 



and Malacca, and is destitute of the scent-pouches which are so curious a characteristic 

 of the preceding Viverrine animals. It is not at all a common animal, and its habits 

 are not very clearly known. 



The general color of the fur is a moderately deep gray, and upon the back are 

 drawn four very large, saddle-shaped stripes of an exceedingly dark and rich brown, 

 extremely broad on the spine, and becoming very narrow on the ribs. Along the sides 

 run twor.ovvsor chains of similarly colored markings, the upper band being occasionally 

 merged in the broad stripes that cross the back. The lower band extends from the 

 cheeks to the flanks. The legs are finely spotted, and the tail is covered with alternate 

 rings of .-'ray and dark brown, the rings becoming more distinct towards the point of 

 the tail. 



The creature has been termed Pridnodon, or " Saw-tooth," on,, account of the curi- 

 ously shaped teeth, which present a jagged, or saw-like appearance. Its limbs are 

 very slender and delicately formed. Although a scarce animal in every part of Java, 

 it is especially so in any part of the island except the eastern end, where it is found 

 among the thick forests with which that locality is densely clothed. 



BLOTCHED GENETT.-Oenefta Tlgriaa. 



GENETTS. 



A SMALL, but rather important, group of the Viverrine animals, is that the members 

 f which are known by the name of the GENETTS. These creatures are all nocturnal in 

 their habits, as are the civets, and, like those animals, can live on a mixture of animal 

 and vegetable food, or even on vegetable food alone. The Genetts possess the musk- 

 secreting apparatus, which much resembles the pouch of the civet, although in size it is 

 not so large, nor does it secrete so powerfully smelling a substance as that of the civets. 

 The secreting organ, although it resembles a pouch, is not so in reality, being simply 

 composed of two glands, united to each other by a strip of skin. 



The best known of these animals is the COMMON, or BLOTCHED GENETT, an inhabitant 



Southern Africa and of various other parts of the world, being found even in the 



south of France. It is a very beautiful and graceful animal, and never fails to attract 



