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RATEL AND MOROC, OR BEE-CUCKOO. 
RATEL. — INDIAN BADGER. — BEE-CUCKOO, HONEY- 
GUIDE, HONEY-BIRD, OR MOROC. 
** Is the animal which they show us here 
as the Ratel, the Ratel properly so called ?” 
Such was the question which one of our 
usual party proposed, after the animal itself, 
by a display of habits as amiable as they 
were singular, had interested them and other 
spectators, to an unusual degree, in its ob- 
servation and history. In the hutch, or 
cage, immediately adjoining its own, but en- 
tirely hidden from its view, is a Coatimandi, 
an animal of something of its own size, figure, 
and habits, but yet of very different colour 
and appearance, and from another part of 
the world; and when spectators give the 
Ratel (so called) fruit or biscuits, it imme- 
diately picks them up with the greatest 
eagerness and apparent solicitude, and with 
