THE GRAY ICHNEUMON. 
ICHNEUMON GRISEUS. Gkorr. 
From the Civets, to which it closely approaches in the 
number and in some degree also in the form of its teeth, 
in the asperity of its tongue, and in the semi-retractility 
of its claws, the group of which the Egyptian Ichneumon 
forms the type is distinguished by its narrower and more 
pointed muzzle, by the shortness of its lower lip, and 
more especially by the absence of the double cavity 
beneath the tail, which is replaced by a single pouch of 
considerable size, but destitute of secreting glands. Their 
hair is long, crisp, brittle, and always more or less 
variegated in colour, in consequence of each separate hair 
being marked by alternate rings of different shades. 
The colour of the species now before us, which is a 
