THE RACOON 



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with longer and more pointed muzzles than the cats, 

 standing lower on the limbs, and with a second blunt or 

 tubercular molar, or grinding tooth, on either sicle of the 



Fig. 62. 



THE POIANA. 



upper jaw^, and claws less retractile than those of the 

 cats. The civets are handsomely marked, striped and 

 spotted animals, as are also the genets and three allied 

 forms called linsangs, which come from India and the 

 Malay Archipelago. The civets, about the size of a large 



