THE PARADOXURUS. 
PARADOXURUS TYPUS. F. Cuv. 
AutHoueH the division of the true Carnivora into digi- 
tigrade and plantigrade is in many respects objection- 
able, we feel compelled, in conformity with established 
rules, to remove the animal before us from its most 
obvious affinities, to arrange it among the latter; placing 
it, however, at the commencement of that division and 
nearly in contact with the viverrine groups, to which it 
is so intimately allied, as to have been actually con- 
founded by Buffon with the common Genette ; a mistake, 
which was first clearly pointed out by M. F. Cuvier, but 
which has obtained so generally among naturalists, that 
the Paradoxurus is still commonly exhibited under that 
erroneous name. From the Genettes and Civets it differs 
