30 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



the Sapajous, a short muzzle, a slender and exten- 

 sible tongue ; two cheek-teeth in front pointed, and 

 three tuberculous ones behind. 



There is known but a single species CViverra cau- 

 divolvula, Gra.), Buff. Supp. III. l., from the warm 

 parts of South America, and some of the great An- 

 tilles, where it is named poto. It is as large as a 

 pole-cat, with woolly hair, of a grayish or brownish 

 yellow. Nocturnal, of a disposition rather mild, 

 and capable of subsisting on fruits, honey, milk, 

 blood, fyc. 



The Badgers, (Meles, Storr.) 



Which Linnaeus places like the racoons, in the genus 

 of bears, have a very small tooth behind the canine ; 

 then two pointed molars followed above by one which 

 we begin to recognise as the true carnivorous tooth 

 (la carnassihre), from the vestige of an edge disco- 

 vered on its external side. Behind it is a squared 

 tuberculous tooth the largest of all. The penultimus 

 below begins also to exhibit some resemblance to 

 the inferior carnassikres ; but as it has on the in- 

 terior side two tubercles as elevated as its edge, it 

 performs the part of the tuberculous tooth. The 

 last one is very small. 



These are animals with a creeping walk and noc 

 turnal mode of life, like all the preceding. The tal- 

 is short, the toes deeply involved in the skin, and 

 they are eminently distinguished besides by a pouch 

 situated under the tail, whence oozes a fat and foetid 

 humour. The nails of their fore-feet are consider- 



