$4 MAMMALIA. 
and nearly simple. It is covered with long hair, and has a tuft of it at 
each ear. The tail is long, hairy, and has a propensity to curl, as if pre- 
hensile. : 
This animal is also one of those from India, for the knowledge of which 
we are indebted to the late M. du Vaucel. One species is the 
Ict. albifrons, Fr. Cuv., Ann. des Sc. Nat. IV. pl. 1. Grey; 
tail and sides of the muzzle black; size that of a large cat. From 
Bootan. 
Ict. ater, Fr. Cuv. Mammif. Black; muzzle whitish; size that 
of a stout dog. From Malacca*. 
Nasua, Storr. 
The Coatis, to the teeth, tail, nocturnal habit, and slow dragging gait of 
the Raccoon, add a singularly elongated and flexible snout. ‘The feet are 
semi-palmate, notwithstanding which they climb trees. Their long nails 
are used for digging. They inhabit the warm climates of America, and 
their diet is nearly the same as that of the Marten of Europe. 
Viverra nasua, L.; Buff. VII, xlviii. (The Red Coati). Red- 
dish fawn colour; muzzle brown; tail with brown rings. 
Viv. narica, L.; Buff. VIM, xlviii. (The Brown Coati). Brown, 
white spots over the eye and snout. 
This is, perhaps, the only proper place for the singular genus of the 
KinkaJous or Porto, Cuv.—Crrcoreptes, [lig.—which, to a planti- 
grade walk, adds a long prehensile tail, like that of the Sapajous, a short 
muzzle, a slender and extensible tongue, two pointed grinders before, and 
three tuberculous ones behind. 
Only one species is known, Viverra caudivolvula, Gm.; Buff. 
Supp. III. 4; and better, Fr. Cuv. Mammif. From the warm parts 
of America, and from some of the great Antilles, where it is called 
Potto; size of a Polecat; hair woolly, and of a grey or yellowish 
brown; habits nocturnal, of a mild disposition, and lives on fruit, 
milk, honey, blood, &c. 
Metes, Storr. 
The Badgers, which Linneus placed with the Raccoons, among the Bears, 
have a very small tooth behind the canine, then two pointed molars, fol- 
lowed in the upper jaw by one that we begin to recognise as a lacerator, 
from the trenchant vestige it exhibits on its outer side; behind this is a 
square tuberculous one, the largest of all. Below, the penultimate begins 
to shew a resemblance to the inferior carnivorous teeth; but, as there are 
two tubercles on its internal border, as elevated as its trenchant edge, it 
acts as a tuberculous one; the last below is very small. 
These are animals with a rampant walk and nocturnal habits, like the 
preceding, whose tail is short, fingers considerably enveloped in the skin, 
and which are further conspicuously distinguished by a pouch situated be- 
neath the tail, and from which a greasy and fetid secretion oozes out. 
Their very elongated fore nails render them exceedingly dexterous in dig- 
ging the ground. 
M. europea; Ursus meles, L.; Buff. VII, vii. (The European 
Badger). Greyish above, black beneath, a blackish band on each 
* Add I’Ictide dore, Fred. Cuy. 
