STRIATED WEESEL. SKUNK, 
yapour unlefs terrified *, It furely ought to be treated with the 
higheft attention. 
The fkin is neglected by the Europeans, by reafon of the coarfenefs 
of the hair. The Indians make ufe of it for tobacco pouches, which 
they carry before them like the Highlanders. 
It climbs trees with great agility. It feeds on fruits ¢ and infects, 
Is a great enemy to birds, deftroying both their eggs and young. It 
will alfo break into hen-roofts, and deftroy all the poultry tf. It 
breeds in holes in the ground, and hollow trees, where it leaves its 
young, while it is rambling in queft of prey, 
Hift, Quad. N° 218.—Smellie, vy: 297.—Lev. Mvys. 
EESEL. With fhort rounded ears: fides of the face white: 
from the nofe to the back extends a bed of white; along the 
top of the back, to the bafe of the tail, is another broad one of black, 
bounded on each fide by a white ftripe: the belly, feet, and tail, 
black. But the colors vary: that which is figured by M.de Buffon 
has a white tail: the claws on all the feet very long, hike thofe of a 
Badger: the tail very full of hair. 
This inhabits the continent of America, from Hudfon’s Bay § to 
Peru||. In the laft it is called Chinche. It burrows like the former, 
and has all the fame qualities. Itis alfo found in Mexico, where it is 
called Conepatl, or Boy’s little Fox .. 
* Kalm,i. 278. + Catefoy, ii. tab. 62- t Kalm, i. 274. § Sent 
from thence by Mr. Graham. l| Feuilice O2/. Peru, 1714, p. 272. q Here 
ssandez, Mex. 332. 
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