CARNARIA. 99 
Brown; top of the head grey; a large white spot under the 
throat. 
These two animals are found in all the warm climates of 
America, and smell strongly of musk. Their feet are some- 
what palmated, and it appears they have sometimes been taken 
for Otters.(1) 
RatTetus, F. C. 
The Ratels have a false molar in each jaw less than the Grison, 
and their upper tuberculous tooth is but slightly developed, so that 
in the teeth they approach the Cat, while their whole exterior is 
that of the Grison or Badger. The legs are short ; feet plantigrade, 
and five toes to each; nails very strong, &c. kc. 
One species only is known, the Viverra mellivora, Sparm.; 
rand Viv. capensis, Schreb. pl. 125. Size of the European Bad- 
ger; grey above; black beneath, with a white line that sepa- 
rates the two colours; sometimes it is nearly all white above. 
It inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, and digs up the earth with 
its long claws, in search of the honey-combs of the wild bees. 
The 
DIGITIGRADA 
Form the second tribe of the Carnivora. The animals 
which compose it walk on the ends of their toes. 
In the first subdivision there is only one tuberculous tooth 
behind the upper carnivorus ; these animals, on account of the 
length of their body, and the shortness of their legs, which 
permit them to pass through the smallest openings, have been 
styled vermiform, Like the preceding ones, they have no 
cecum, but they are not torpid during the winter. Linnus | 
placed them all in one genus, that of 
Musreta, Lin., 
- Or the Weasels, which we will divide into four subgenera. 
-Purortius, Cuy. 
The Polecats are the most sanguinary of all; the lower carnivo- 
rous tooth has no inner tubercle, and the superior tuberculous one 
(1) {t is supposed by the description given by Marcgrave of his cariqueibeiu, 
which name Buffon has applied to his saricovienne, Vol. XIII, p. 319, that he 
meant to speak of the Taira. 
