110 MAMMALIA. 
frequents the edges of brooks, near springs, &c. The skin 
forms an important article of trade. 
V. linsang, Hardwick, Lin. Trans. XII, pl. xxiv; Felis gra- 
cilis, 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 yellowish white; reddish brown spots, those on the back 
forming four longitudinal bands ; tail semi-annulated with red, 
and only half the length of the body.(1) 
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 innumber.(2) The hair is harsher than in the preceding 
species. The 
Parapoxurus, Fr. Cuy. 
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 distinguishes 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 
quently brought from the Cape. There is another taken from a young specimen, 
Brown, Ill. pl. xliii, still under the name of Fossane. Itis distinguished by its whi- 
tish 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 number 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. VU, pl. lviii, and the Chat bisaam of Vosmaer, of 
which Gmelin has made as many species, appear to be common Genets. 2 
(1) 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 Te- 
gards the distribution of the spots; but he calls them black, whereas they are red- 
dish. Besides, 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, 
notwithstanding the assertion of Poivre to the contrary. 
(2) Itis probably Panimal du muse of La Peyronie, Acad. des Se. 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. . fusciata, 
Gm.; Buff. Supp. VU, Ivii. sf ” . si ‘ >> Rie 
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