MAMMALIA. FERM. Fitchet. 161 



the legs are fhort, with fmall feet, having long claws before and fhort behind ; the hairs on the up- 

 per part of the body are brown near the bottom, black on their upper parts, and hoary at the tips ; 

 the hair on the back is undulated ; the infide of the legs is yellowiih brown ; the tail is thick at the 

 bafe, ends abruptly, and is tufted with black : It makes a grunting noile, is much in motion, and 

 often fits upright, with its fore legs hanging down ; and when plealed makes a noife like that of a 

 fmall rattle rapidly turned. 



7. Coati. — 6. Vi'verra nafua. 2. 



Of a dark brown colour; the tail is furrounded with alternate white and brown rings; 

 the nofe is long and flexible. Schreber, iii. 436. t. cxviii. 



Long-nofed Bear, having a long flexible nofe, and the tail variegated with different coloured 

 rings. Briff. quad. 190. — Vulpes minor, LefTer Fox, or Quachy, having the upper jaw and nofe 

 confiderably lengthened, and the tail variegated with dark brown and white alternate rings. Bar- 

 rere, Fr. equin. 167. — Coati. Marcgr. Braf. 228. — Coati-mondi. Act. Parif. iii. P. 3. p. 17. t. 37. 



Raj, quad. 180. Houttuyn, zamenftel ii. 238'. t. 15. f. 2. — Black Coati. Sm. Buff. v. 53. pi. civ. 



Braiilian Weefel. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 215.— Guiana Badger. Bancroft, Guian. 141. Lev. 

 Muf. 



Inhabits South America. — The Coati is about the fize of a Hare, being eighteen inches long from 

 the point of the nofe to the origin of the tail, which is thirteen inches : The general colour of the 

 hair is dark brown, like that of a Fox, having white fpots above, below, and at the fide of the eyes ; 

 the hair on the back is fomewhat harfh, but on the reft of the body it is fmooth, foft, gloffy, and 

 clofe fet ; on the belly, the breaft, and under the jaws, it is whitifli; the ears are fmall, rounded, and 

 black on their upper parts ; above the upper eye-lids, below the eyes, on the cheeks, and below the 

 chin, are wattles or hairy warts; the muzzle is lengthened into a long, black probofcis or fnout, which 

 is moveable in every direftion, having the point as if cut off in an oblique direftion inwards, and 

 wanting the ufual furrow on the upper lip : Of the fore-teeth, the lateral ones in the upper jaw are 

 larger than the reft, and the middle ones below are convergent ; the tongue is divided by fiflures in- 

 to lobes, like an oak leaf; the tail is carried high, is almoft as long as the body, is of a brown colour, 

 having ten pale or whitifh rings, is flattened fo that the hairs fhed a little outwards, and is narrowed 

 or comprefled at the point ; the feet reft on the heel, which is broad : It is by no means nimble, but 

 readily climbs trees ; each foot has five toes, the pollex, or inner toe, being in the fame line with the 

 reft, and the claws are comprefled and fliarp pointed : This animal digs remarkably well, fearching 

 for earth worms, on which it feeds, as likewife on mice, apples, bread, eggs, and poultry ; when irri- 

 tated it gives out a moft intolerably ftinking odour. 



8. Coati-mondi. — 7. Viverra narica. 3. 



Of a hoary brown colour ; having the tail of the fame colour with the body, and the 

 fnout long and flexible. Schreber, iii. 438. t. cxix. 



Long-nofed Bear, having the- fnout long and flexible, and the tail of a uniform colour. BrhT. 

 quad. ipo.-Dufky Brafilian Weefel. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 215. /?—Brown Coati. Sm. Buff. v. 

 53. pi. c v.— Coati-mondi. Marcgr. Braf. 228. 



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