THE JAVANESE CIVET. 
Viverra Rasse. Horsr. 
THE present species is remarkably distinct from the pre- 
ceding both in form and colour. Its ground is of a 
much lighter gray, on which it offers a broad longitu- 
dinal dorsal line of black, and two or three narrower 
ones of the same colour on each side, composed of con- 
fluent spots. These spots are also thickly but somewhat 
irregularly scattered over the rest of the body, and may 
be considered as forming a series of flexuous dotted lines. 
The legs are black externally; and the head is grayish 
and without spots. A deep longitudinal black line 
occupies the side of the neck above, and a second more 
oblique is placed below. The body, which is from 
fifteen to eighteen inches in length, is narrow and com- 
