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V. linsang, Hardwick, Lin. Trans. XIII. pl. xxiv; Felis gracilis, 
Horsf. Java. (The Javanese Genet). Several irregular, brown, 
transverse bands on the body, and seven rings round the tail. 
V. fossa, Buff. XIII. xx. (The Fossane of Madagascar). Tail, 
flanks, and all above, fawn colour; the legs and all beneath a yellow- 
ish white; reddish brown spots, those on the back forming four lon- 
gitudinal bands; tail semi-annulated with red, and only half the 
length of the body*. 
V. rasse, Horsf. Jav. (The Rasse). Legs brown; body greyish 
brown, with small brown spots united on the crupper, and forming 
five longitudinal lines. Tail shorter than the body, annulated with 
black and white, the black rings six or seven in number}. The 
hair is harsher than in the preceding species. The 
Paravoxurus, Fr. Cuv. 
has the teeth and most of the characters of the Genets, with which it was 
a long time confounded; it is however more stout-limbed; the feet are 
semi-palmate, and the walk nearly plantigrade; but what particularly dis- 
tinguishes it is the spiral inclination of the tail, which is not prehensile. 
Only one species is known, the 
P. typus, Fr. Cuv. (The Pougouné of India). A yellowish- 
brown, with some spots of a deeper brown than the rest; the feet, 
muzzle, and part of the tail blackish; eye-brows white, and a white 
spot under the eye. The French of Pondicherry call it the Palm 
Martin or Marte des palmiers }. 
Maneusta, Cuv.—Herprstzs, /lig. 
The pouch voluminous and simple; the anus pierced in its depth. The 
hairs are annulated with light and obscure tints, which determine their 
general colour on the eye. 
The Mangouste of Egypt, so celebrated among the ancients under 
the name of /chnewmon; Viverra ichneumon, L.; Buff. Supp. III. 
No. 280, under the improper name of Fossane. It is the variety most frequently 
brought from the Cape. There is another taken from a young specimen, Brown, 
Ml. pl. xliii, still under the name of Fossane. It is distinguished by its whitish and 
not brown legs, and we have seen a similar one from Senegal. That of Buff. IX. 
xxxvi, has not the bands on the neck and shoulders sufficiently marked. The num- 
ber of black rings on the tail varies from nine to eleven. The Civette de Malacca 
of Sonnerat, Voy. II. pl. xxxix, which is the same as the Genette du Cap, Buff. 
Supp. VII. pl. lviii, and the Chat bisaam of Vosmaer, of which Gmelin has made as 
many species, appear to be common Genets. 
* Description taken from the original sent to Buffon by Poivre, and engraved, 
Hist. Nat. XIII. pl. xx. The description of Daubenton is correct so far as regards 
the distribution of the spots; but he calls them black, whereas they are reddish. Be- 
sides, this animal can hardly be the fossa of Flacourt, which that author states is the 
size of the Badger. The Fossane has the same furrow as the Genet, notwithstand- 
ing the assertion of Poivre to the contrary. : 
+ Itis probably V'animal du musc of La Peyronie, Acad. des Sc. 1728, pl. xxiv. 
p. 464, which had been confounded with the Zibeth—but that animal is larger, and 
has other colours. To this division we must refer the Viv. fasciata, Gm.; Buff. 
Supp. VII. lvii. 
t Itis the pretended Genette de France of Buffon, Supp. IIT. pl. xlvii, the Civette 
a bandeau of Geoff. 
