146 PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ZLUROIDEA. [Feb. 7, 
with (for the period) a very full account of the structure of the 
animal. The Civet and Zibet are well figured and described by 
Daubenton in Buffon’s ‘ Histoire Naturelle,’ vol. ix. pp. 299-342, 
pls. 31 to 35. Anatomical notes on these animals are also given by 
John Hunter, pp. 51-55 of vol. ii. of his ‘ Essays and Observations,’ 
collected and published by Professor Owen in 1861. A few notes 
‘On the Internal Viscera of Viverra melanurus”’ have also been pub- 
lished by Hodgson in the ‘Caleutta Journal of Natural History,’ 
vol. ii. (1842) p. 56. Recently an account of the anatomy of the 
Civet, with one plate, has been published by Dr. J. Chatin in the 
Ann. des Sc. Naturelles, (5th series) vol. xvii. (1873), plate xxiii., 
wherein the heart and great vessels, the stomach and liver, and the 
cecum are represented. Lastly, we have in vol. xix. (1874) of the 
same work a paper by the same author on the “ glandes odorantes 
des Mammiféres,” wherein the scent and anal glands of the Civet and 
Zibet are described and figured (pls. i. and ii. figs. 1-18), and notes 
are added concerning Viverra tangalunga. The external form of 
the Civet ond of the Zibet are given in F. Cuvier’s Mamm. vol. ii. 
The skeleton of the Civet is represented on plate iv. of De Blainville’s 
‘Ostéographie’ (Viverra), and the skull and dentition of the Civet 
and Zibet on his plates viii. and xii. ; details of the axial and visceral 
skeleton on plate ix.; and the distal part of the Zibet’s humerus on 
pl. x. 
All the four species of Viverra agree in having a more or less 
white throat with transverse, curved, black bands ; all have the tarsus 
and metatarsus hairy beneath, as in the Felide ; all have the back 
with more or Jess elongate hair; and all are of large size, the head 
and body being from about 76" to 92", and the tail from about 
31" to 43". V. tangalunga is the smallest species, and has been 
confounded with V. megaspila; but the distinctions between the 
two species have been pointed out by Dr. Giiuther in the Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1876 (pp. 427, 428), wherein is a good representation of V. 
megaspila in both the adult and young condition. The young in 
this genus seem to be always darker than the adults. The young 
Civet (judging from a skin in the British Museum) is almost black, 
with a black tail (whitish beneath its root), and with a greyish 
mottling on the flanks and outside the thighs, greyish belly, and 
with white marks on the cheeks, upper lip, inside of ears, underside 
of throat, and side of the neck!. I have not seen the skull of V. 
meyaspila; but, assuming that it closely resembles those of the other 
species, it may be said that in Viverra the auditory bulla is divided 
by a distinct groove into a small anterior part and a much larger 
and more inflated posterior portion. There is an internal septum (as 
in Felis). There is a distinct alisphenoid canal. The paroccipital 
process depends below the bulla, to which it isapplied. The external 
cpening of the auditory meatus is large and rounded ; it is rather its 
} Hodgson, in the ‘ Caleutta Journal of Nat. Hist.’ vol. ii. (1842) p. 55, says 
that the eyes of the young are open when less than a week old; also that the 
adults wander about singly and eat small mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects, 
and some roots. 
