SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



must be considered conditional only, as several of them are 

 still thought by able observers to be distinct. 



It must be premised, hov^^ever, that the Zorille of BufFon 

 (Viverra Zorilla, Gm.) belongs to the division Martes, and 

 that the Coasse of the same writer, at least in the Baron 

 Cuvier's opinion, is established only from an imperfect skin 

 of the Coati. 



a. M. Americana (American Mephitic Weasel.) Fur 

 soft and shining, marked by w^hite longitudinal bands upon 

 a blackish brown ground ; tail long and furry. 



358. 1. Mustela Americana, Desm. Mam. 186. Viverra 

 Striata, Shaw's Zool. i. 387. V. Putorius, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 

 I. 87. V. Conepatl, Gmelin, i. 88. V. Mephitis, Gmelin, 

 1. 88. V. Chinge, Shaw's Zool. i. 390. V. Putorius, Mutis, 

 Act. Holm. V. Marputio, Gmelin, i. 8S. Mephitis Chilensis, 

 Geoff. Gulo Quitensis, Humboldt, Rec. Obs. Zool. M. 

 Interupta, Raff. Ann. Nat. 3. Gulo Marpurito, Humboldt, 

 Obs. Zool. Striated Weasel, Pennant, Quad. ii. 64. Cone- 

 pate, Buff. XIII. 288. Conepatl, liernand. Mex. 232. 

 La Chinche, Buff. xiii. 294. Skunk, Americans. 



Var. a. Yagouare of d'Azara, Quad, du Paraguay. Black- 

 brown, brightening with the increased age of the indivi- 

 dual, with two white stripes stretching to the tail. Some 

 individuals are without the white stripes ; others have them 

 very obscurely indicated, and others again have the stripes 

 extending along the sides of the tail. 



Var. b. Polecat of Kalm, Skunk of the Americans. 

 Brown-black, with a white stripe down the dorsal line and 

 another on each side of it. 



Var. c. The Zorille oi Gemelli Carreri Voyag. Described 

 only as being black and white, with a very fine tail. 



Var. d. The Mapurita of Gumilla, Natural History of 

 the Orenoco, Mafutiliqui of the Indians. Spotted black 

 and white. 



Var. e. The Puant of Lepage, Dupratz, Hist, do la 



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