HISTORY Ot QUADRUPEDS. 



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season from New York and Pennsylvania. The 

 hair on the body is mostly black; the sides brown; 

 the ears are broad and round, dusky on their out- 

 sides, and edged with white; the face and sides of 

 the neck pale brown, mixed with black; the feet 

 are very broad, and covered with hair, even to their 

 soles; the tail is full and bushy; the length, from 

 nose to tail, is twenty-eight inches; the tail seven- 

 teen. 



THE ICHNEUMON. 



(Viverra Ichneumon, Linn. L<i *]f<ingot/sfc 9 Buff.) 



THIS animal, in Egypt, is domestic, like the Cat; 

 and is retained by the natives for the same useful 

 purpose of clearing their houses of Rats and Mice. 

 With all the strength and agility of the Cat, it has 

 a more general appetite for carnage. It attacks 

 without dread, the most deadly Serpents, and preys 

 on every noxious reptile of the torrid zone, which 

 it seizes and kills with great avidity. It is said, 

 that when it is wounded by a Serpent, and begins 

 to feel the effect of the poison, it immediately has 



