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heard that he had any voice. During the day he was inclined to sleep, 
but became restless and exceedingly unquiet as night came on. 
Bruce describes his fennec as about ten inches long, and of a dirty white 
color; the hair on the belly being softer, whiter, and longer than on the rest 
of the body. 
There has been great diversity of opinion among naturalists concerning 
this animal. Cuvier treats Bruce’s account as scarcely worthy of credit ” 
but Denbam and Clapperton, on their return from Central Africa, brought : 
ski= of the animal, and thus placed its existence beyond doubt. 
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Is from two to three feet in length, stands from ten to twelve inches high, 
and has a tail half the length of its body. The hair is long, and the ground 
color of it is a brownish gray, interspersed with numerous transverse, inter- 
rupted bands or irregular spots of black. Along the centre of the back, 
from between the shoulders to the end of the tail, is a kind of mane, which 
can be erected or depressed as the animal pleases, and which is formed 
of black hairs, longer than those of the body. The sides of the neck and 
the upper lip are nearly white. The legs, and the greater part of the tail, 
1 Viverra civetta, L*x. The genus Viverra has six upper and six lower incisors; two 
upper and two lowe, canines; twelve upper and twelve lower molars. Three fal 
molars in the upper Jaw, conical and Ce ie a large carnivorous bicuspid tooth, an 
two tuberculous ones ; in the lower, four false molars, one bicuspid and one tuberculous ; 
head long; muzzle pointed; feet pentadactyle; claws semiretractile ; anal pouch more 
ot less deep, 
