SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



Viverra Civetta, Gmelin, Sys. Nat. 1. 80. 



Civetta, Clusius. 



La Civette, Buff on. Hist. Nat. ix. The Civet, Pennant, 

 Perrault. Hist, des Anim. tab. 23. 



Icon. Schreb. tab.Wl. Buff. i^. pi. ^A. Shaw, Zool. 1. 

 t. 95. F. Cuvier, Mam. Lithog. 



Inhabits Africa, especially Abyssinia. 



392. 2. V. Zibetha (the Zibett.) Gray ; legs transversely, 

 spotted w^ith brown ; throat white, with two black bands 

 on each side ; no mane ; tail long, with eight or ten annuli, 

 black and white. 



Viverra Zibetta, Gmelin, Sys. Nat. 1 . 



Zibet, Buff". IX. t.31. Le Muse, Lapeyronie, Mem. de 

 VAcademie des Sciences, 1731. Zibett? Shaw, Zool. i. 389. 



Icon. Schreb. tab. 112. Biiff. Hist. Nat. ix. pi. 31. Ency. 

 Method, t. 88./. 2. Shaw. Zool. i. t. 95. F. Cuvier, Mam. 

 Lithog. 



Inhabits both India and Africa, according to difierent 

 writers. 



393. 3. Viverra Rasse (the Rasse.) Yellowish-gray; 

 ears close back, with eight parallel longitudinal blackish 

 lines ; neck obscurely banded ; feet brown ; hair of the body 

 ridged, tail rather attenuated. 



Viverra Rasse, Horsf. Java, vi. 

 Rasse, Javanesse. 

 Icon. Horsf. Java, vi. t. 2 

 Inhabits Java. 



Yields the Dedes of the Javanese, and the Zibet of the 

 Malays. 



II. Genetta, Desm. Anal pouch reduced to a mere 

 fold of the skin, containing very little excretion ; tail straight ; 

 cheek teeth f^. 



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