THE RATEL AND COATIMONDI. 111 
évery visitor, by throwing its clumsy bedy 
into a variety of antic postures, and, when 
noticed, tumbling head over heels with every 
symptom of delight. But, toward animals, it 
exhibits no such mildness of temper ; and it is 
curious to observe the Cat-like eagerness with 
which it watches the motions of any of the 
smaller among them that happen to pass be- 
fore its den, and the instinctive dread mani- 
fested by the latter on perceiving it. Its food 
is of a mixed nature, consisting, like that of 
the Bears, and other less ‘carnivorous beasts, 
of bread and milk in the morning, and flesh in 
the latter part of the day.”* 
‘¢ I will not now enter into my reasons for 
concluding that the specimens, either living 
or dead, of the Zoological Society, are not 
specimens of the Ratel, but of the animal 
properly distinguished by Pennant by the 
name of Indian Badger; for I know that, 
though these would amuse you by showing 
the respective figures and habits of those two 
very distinguishable animals, you will be 
* Garden and Menagerie of the Zoological Society 
delineated, p. 20. 
