1 66 MAMMALIA. FERiE. Fitchet. 



length : The perfume, named Civet, is produced by this fpecies and the next in a fack, or aperture, 

 which is fituated between the anus and the privities, in both fexes : The Civets are kept in cages for 

 this purpofe, having the perfume, which is about the confiftence of foft pomatum, fcraped out with a 

 fmall fpoon two or three times a-week, and yield about a dram each time. In a wild ftate this animal is- 

 ferocious, and preys on birds and fmall quadrupeds ; but may be domefticated, and will feed on Mil- 

 let pap, raw flefh, and fifh. 



319 20. Zibet. — 19. Viverni Zibetha. 5. 



The tail is marked with coloured rings, and the back is variegated with waved black 

 and white ftreaks. Schreber, iii. 420. t. cxii. 



Felis zibethi, Civet-Cat. Gefn. quad. 837.— Animal zibethi, Civet animal, or Hyaena of the 

 ancients, according to Belon. Aldrov. 343. Raj. quad. 178. — Mulk animal. A6t. Parif. 1731, 

 p. 443. — Zibet. Sm. BufF. v. 239. pi. cxxvi. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 223. $. — Odoriferous Hyaena. 

 P. Caitellus, Francof. 1698, p. 8. — Its Anatomy. Bertholin. cent. 4. n. 1. and cent. 5. n. 49. 



.Inhabits Arabia, Malabar, Siam, and the Philippine iflands This is a ferocious animal, which is 



fcarcely tameable, yet may, with difficulty, be domefticated, and very readily returns to its original 

 ftate of ferocity: When irritated, it erects the hair of the back, and defends itfelf by biting; it lives 

 on fmall quadrupeds, birds, and fifhes, and even on fruits and roots; and is very active both in run- 

 ning and in climbing trees. The body of the Zibet is two and a half feet long, and of a {lender 

 make ; it is larger than the Civet, having a longer and more {lender muzzle, which is fomewhat 

 concave on the upper part, while that of the Civet is rather convex ; in the upper jaw are fix paral- 

 lel fore-teeth, of which the intermediate ones are fomewhat lefs than the reft ; in the lower jaw are 

 likewife fix fore-teeth, whereof thofe in the middle are a little fhorter than the others, being alter- 

 nately placed within the general line of the teeth; in each fide of each jaw is one tufk, which ftands 

 at fome diftance from the other teeth; the grinders are fharp, pointed, and acutely knobbed, and of 

 thefe there are five on each fide in the lower, and fix in the upper jaw; the ears are proportionally 

 fhorter than thofe of the Civet, and are hid in the hair ; the head and lower part of the neck are 

 mixed dirty white, brown, and black ; the face being of a pale cinereous grey colour ; the fides of 

 •the neck are marked with black {tripes, which begin near the ears, and end at the breaft and fhoul- 

 ders ; the hair on the body is rather coarfe, clofe fet, and waved, of a cinereous grey and black co- 

 lour; a black line reaches along the ridge of the back, from the middle of the neck fome way up the 

 tail, having two others on each fide ; the fides are fpotted with black and afh colour ; the tail is barred 

 with alternate black and white rings, the black bars being broader on the upper than they are on the 

 lower fide ; the legs are duiky, and black at their lower extremities ; the tail is longer than that of 

 the Civet, not bufhy, though thickly covered with hair, rounded, and marked with alternate rings : 

 The Zibet, in both fexes, is provided with a follicle, or aperture, exactly in the fame fituation with 

 that of the Civet, and furnifhing the fame kind of perfume. 



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20 21. Hermaphrodite Fitchet. — 20. Vi'verra hennaphrodita 20. 



Has a long tail, black at the tip, and three black (tripes along the back. Schreber, iii.. 

 426. n. 6. 



Inhabits 



