GC CARNIVORA. 



[An Ichneumon (Mangusta Herpestes ?).] 

 Banks's Sine cceco. 



An animal about the size and shape of ' Jack's wife 1 , with short legs, 

 having no hair on the earpus, nor on the tarsus ; and walks principally 

 on the toes and fingers. Five fingers, the thumb rather the strongest 

 and shortest ; the fore- and ring-fingers of an equal length ; the little 

 finger something shorter. The nails sharp. Toes and fingers a little 

 bent, but not so much so as in the dog, nor so straight as in the racoon. 

 The balls of the fingers are four, and are horny ; there are two balls 

 behind these, and the ball of the pisiform bone is larger. The thumb of 

 the hind-foot is very short, having no nail, but a substance on it like 

 what is on the balls of the toes or fingers of the four toes : the two 

 middle are the longest, and are of an equal length. 



The ears are thin, and pretty flat in their most projecting parts ; but 

 there is a singular process within the concave part, viz. in the concha 2 . 



The stomach is almost a round cavity, the small end as thick and 

 short as the large. The termination of the duodenum, or beginning of 

 jejunum, is loose, or has as long a mesentery as any other part of the 

 intestines. There is no caecum 3 . The liver is divided into four lobes. 

 The kidneys are conglobate. 



[Family MUSTELID^E.] 

 The Martin-Cat [Mustela Martes, Linn. 4 ]. 



The feet are rough only where they tread, that is upon the five toes 

 and ball. 



The duct of the parotid passes over the masseter, with a branch of 

 the seventh pair of nerves. 



The tongue is pretty long. The sacculus laryngis is similar to the 

 racoon's, in its passing over the os hyoides ; but its beginning is like that 

 in the badger, and so is the termination of the epiglottis. These parts 

 are alike in both these animals only in this : the sacculus passes over 

 the os hyoides, as in the racoon. There is a very small worm [lytta] 

 in the tongue. 



1 [A characteristic example of the elucidation of the ' ignotum per ignotius.'] 



2 [Hunt. Prep. No. 1613. The skull of the Mangusta Mungo is No. 4307, Osteo- 

 logical Series.] 



3 [The second of the nine folio volumes of Hunter's MS. notes of Dissections of 

 Animals, testified to by Mr. Clift (see vol. ii. p. 344), was entitled "Animals sine 

 cceco ;" and included, with the Mustelidts, JJrsidce, and other plantigrade Carnivora, 

 the Shrew, Mole, Hedgehog, Sloth, Pangolin, and Porpoise.] 



4 [The skeleton of this specimen is No. 4152, Osteol. Series.] 



