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a white spot under the eye. The French of Pondicherry call it 
the Palm Martin or Marte des palmiers.(1) 
Maneusta, Cuy.—HeErpssteEs, Illig. 
The pouch voluminous and simple ; the anus pierced in its depth. 
The hairs are annulated with light and obscure tints, which deter- 
mine their general colour on the eye. 
The Mangouste of Egypt, so celebrated among the ancients 
under the name of J/chneumon; Viverra ichneumon, L.; Buff. 
Supp. III, xxvi, is grey, with a long tail terminated with -a 
black tuft; it is larger than our Cat, and as slender as a Mar- 
ten. It chiefly hunts for the eggs of the Crocodile, but also 
feeds on all sorts of small animals; brought up in houses, it 
hunts Mice, Reptiles, &c. By the Europeans at Cairo it is 
called Pharaoh’s Rat ; by the natives, Nems. The ancient tra- 
dition of its jumping down the throat of the Crocodile to de- 
stroy it, is entirely fabulous. 
The Mangouste of India; Viv. mungos, Lin.; Buff. XIII, xix, 
and that of the Cape, Viv. cafra, Gm.; Schreb. CXVI, B, are 
smaller, both having a pointed tail, and a grey or brown fur, 
the latter being more of an ashy, and the former more of a fawn 
colour, having besides some red about the cheeks and jaws. 
The Mangouste of India is celebrated for its combats with 
the most dangerous serpents, and for having led us to the 
knowledge of the Ophiorhiza mongos as an antidote to their 
poison. 
There is also the Mangouste of Java—H. Javanicus, red- 
dish brown; cheeks of a chesnut-red ; throat more fawn co- 
loured : a large one from the marshes of the Cape—H. palu- 
dinosus, of an almost uniform reddish-brown, verging to a 
black, a little lighter on the chin: a third from the Cape—JH. 
penicillatus, of a greyish fawn colour, tip of the tail white: one 
from Senegal—Z. albicaudus, grey, tail all white: it is difficult, 
however, to establish very specific differences between these 
animals. 
‘Ryzena, Illig. 
The Surikates te a strong resemblance to the Mangoustes, even 
‘to the tints and transverse streaks of the hair, but are distinguished 
from them and from all the Carnivora of which we have hitherto 
Rvoken, by having only four toes to each foot. They also are higher 
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2. 
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(1) It is the pretended Genetie de France of Buffon, Supp. UI, pl. xlvii, the C7- 
vette a bandeau of Geoff. 
