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the badger, easily tamed, and never eating any- 

 thing without having first plunged it in water. 

 It comes from North America ; subsists on 

 eggs, insects, birds, fyc 



The Racoon Crab-eater, (Ursns Cancrivorus.) Buff. Supp 

 VI. xxxii. 



Of an ashy-brown colour, uniformly clear. The 

 rings of the tail less marked. Habitat, South 

 America. 



The Coatis, (Nasua, Storr.) 



Join to the teeth, the tail, the nocturnal life and 

 dragging walk of the racoons ; the nose is singularly 

 elongated and mobile. The feet are demi-palmate, 

 and yet they climb trees. Their long nails serve 

 them for digging. They come from the warm re- 

 gions of America, and subsist much in the same way 

 as our own martins. 



The Red Coati, (Viverra Nasua, Lin.) Buff. VIII. xlviii. 



Reddish fawn-colour. The muzzle and rings of 

 the tail brown. ; 



The Brown Coati, (Viverra Narica, Lin.) Buff. VIII. xlviii. 



Brown, white spots on the eye and muzzle. 

 We can scarcely introduce more fitly than here 

 the singular genus of the Kinkajous or Potto, 

 Cuv. (Cercoleptes, Illig.), which unites to the planti- 

 grade motion a Ions- and prehensile tail, like that of 



