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PLATE 



XLlir. 



THE F O s s A N E. pen. syn. qjjad. No, 172. 



GENUS MUSTELA, LIN. SYST. 66. WEESEL, PEN. SYN. QJJAD. I50. 



SIZE, 



NOSE, 



MOUTH 



EARS, 

 HEAD, 



BODY, 



BELLY 

 TAIL, 



PLACE 



of a common cat. 



grey, marked with a little brown. 



and JAWS white, marked with a dark brown 

 fpot on each fide, its eyes refembling thofe 

 of a cat. 



rovmded, of a flefli colour. 



grey mixed wdth tawny : a brown line in the 

 forehead. 



of the fame colour, with a dark brown line 

 along the top of the back reaching to the 

 TAIL ; SIDES grey marked with lines of 

 very dark brown oblong fpots. 



and FEET white. 



long, grey ringed with blackifli or dark 

 brown. 



Guinea, Madagafcar, the Cape of Good Hope, 

 Cochin China, and the Philippine Illands. 

 In Guinea it is called the barbe, by the 

 Europeans the wine-bibber, being very 

 greedy of palm-wine, deftroys poultry, 

 when young is reckoned good meat. 



Mr. BROOKS. 



