Ox 
Noe 
THE TOWER MENAGERIE. 
Its body, when full grown, is nearly three feet in length, 
and its tail rather more than one; while its medium 
height may be reckoned at about eighteen inches. The 
ground colour of its fur is gray mingled with a slight 
tinge of fawn; and on this it is elegantly marked with 
numerous longitudinal bands, the dorsal one being 
continuous and entirely black, and the lateral, to the 
number of six or seven on each side, consisting for the 
most part of a series of elongated spots with black 
margins, sometimes completely distinct, and sometimes 
running together. The centre of each of these spots 
offers a deeper tinge of fawn than the ground colour 
external to them; and this deeper tinge is also conspi- 
cuous on the upper part of the head and neck, and on 
the outside of the limbs, all of which parts are irregu- 
larly marked with full black lines and spots of various 
sizes. From the top of the head, between the ears, there 
pass backwards, towards the shoulders, two, or more fre- 
quently four, uninterrupted diverging bands, which are 
full black anteriorly, but generally bifurcate posteriorly 
and enclose a narrow fawn-coloured space within a black 
margin; between these there is a single longitudinal 
somewhat interrupted narrow black line, occupying the 
centre of the neck above. ‘The ears are short and 
rounded, and externally margined with black, surround- 
ing a large central whitish spot. The under parts of the 
body are whitish, spotted with black, and the tail, which 
is of the same ground colour with the body, is also 
covered with blackish spots. 
The description above given is chiefly derived from 
the comparison of two living specimens, the one existing 
in the Menagerie of the Tower, the other in that of the 
