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Ict. ater, Fr. Cuy. Mammif. Black; muzzle whitish; size 
that of a stout Dog. From Malacca.(1) 
Nasvua, 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 claws are used for digging. They inhabit the warm cli- 
mates of America, and their diet is nearly the same as that of the 
Marten of Europe. 
Viverra naswa, L.3; Buff. VIII, xlviii. (The Red Coati.) 
Reddish fawn colour; muzzle brown ; tail with brown rings. 
Viv. narica, L.; Buff, VIII, 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 Kinxasous or Porro, Cuv.—Crrcotepres, Illig.—which, to a 
plantigrade walk, adds a long prehensile tail like that.of the Sapa- 
jous, 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, 1; and better, Fr. Cuv. Mammif. From the warm 
parts of America and from the great Antilles, where it is called 
Potto; size of a Polecat; hair woolly, and of a grey or yel- 
lowish brown; habits nocturnal, of a mild disposition, and lives. 
on fruit, milk, honey, blood, &c. 
ME Es, Storr. 
The Badgers, which Linnzus placed with the Raccoons in the genus 
Ursus, have a very small tooth behind the canine, then two pointed 
molars followed in the upper jaw by one that we begin to recognize 
as carnivorous from the trenchant vestige it exhibits on its outer 
side ; behind this is a square tuberculous one, the largest of all. Be- 
low, the penultimate begins to show 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. 
The slow movements of the Badgers and their nocturnal habits are 
like those of the preceding animals; their tails are short, the toes 
are much enveloped in the skin, and they are otherwise peculiarly 
distinguished by a sac under the tail, from which oozes a fatty, 
(1) Add Pictide doré, Fred. Cuv. 
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