1 64 MAMMALIA. YERJE. Fitchet. 



313 14. Zorilla. — t$. Viverra Zorilla. 14. 



The body is mottled with black and white. Schreber, iii. 445. t. cxxiii. 



Mafutiliqui, or Mapurito. Gumilla Orenoque, iii. 240.— Zorille. Sm. Buff. vii. 295. pi. ccxliv. 

 Penn. hift. of quad. n. 219. 



Inhabits South America. — Is about fourteen inches long from the muzzle to the origin of the tail; 

 the ihout is fhort and blunt ; the head and body are variegated with black and white in irregular 

 longitudinal and tranfverfe bands; the hair is long and filining ; the tail is covered with very long 

 coarfe hair, being black at the rump and almoft to the middle, the reft white; the legs and belly are 

 black : This animal emits the fame abominable odour with the Skunks, fo as even to ftupify and over- 

 come the Jaguar, or American Panther. 



3H 15. Mapurito. — 14. Viverra Mapurito. 15. 



Of a black colour, having a white line from the fore head to the middle of the back. 

 Viverra Putorius. Mutis, aft. Holm. 1769, p. 68. 



Inhabits New Spain, near the mines of Pamplona. — Is about twenty inches long, from the fnout to 

 the tail, which is nine inches long, and whitilh at the tip ; the head is fmall, with a long muzzle, 

 fmooth tongue, and no external ears ; the feet reft on the heel, and have each five toes armed with 

 long claws : This animal lives in deep holes, fleeping all day, and going about during the night ; it 

 is fwift of foot, and feeds on worms and infects. — Probably a variety of the Skunk. — T. 



2>i$ 16. Grifon. — 15. Viverra vittala. 16. 



Has a white fillet from the fhouiders acrofs the fore head. Schreber, iii. 447. t. cxxiv. 



Grifon, or Grey Weafel. Sm. Buff. iv. 266. pi. lxxviii. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 207. — Chinche. 

 Feuille voy. i. 272.? — Yaguane, and Maikel. Falkner, Patagon. 158. I59-? 



Inhabits Surinam, and probably the whole of South America. — This animal is very little known, 

 having only been defcribed by Mr Allamand in his Dutch edition of Buffon ; and, what is Angular, 

 the remarkable fillet acrofs the fore-head and down the fhouiders, though engraved by the Count de 

 Buffon for the improved edition of his Natural Hiftory, and given by Dr Gmelin, from Schreber, as 

 the fpecific diftinftion of the animal, is not in the fmalleft degree noticed in Buffon's account of the 

 animal, as quoted from Allamand. The head is very large, with fhort femicircular ears, and large 

 eyes ; there are fix cutting teeth in each jaw, four of them hardly riling above the gums; all the feet 

 have five toes, with yellowifh claws ; the body is ahout feven inches long; the whole upper parts are 

 covered with deep brown hair, having white points ; under the head and neck the hair is bright 

 grey, the white parts of the hair being as long as the brown ; the muzzle, the under parts of the bo- 

 dy, the legs, and tail are black; the tail is about half the length of the body, and terminates in a point. 



316 17. Ceylon Fitchet.— 16. Viverra zeylanica. 17. 



Is of a mixed grey and dufky colour on the upper parts of the body, and whitilh un- 

 derneath. Schreber, iii. 451. 



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