THE SKUNK. 



Generic Characters. 

 Six cutting and two canine teeth in each jaw , 

 Nofe lharp; body llender. 

 Five toes before and five behind. 



Synonims. 

 Chin che, Feuillee Obf. Peru, 17*4, p. 272. 



Skunk, Fiskatta, Kalnis Voyage, ForJIer's Travels, i. 273. tab. ii. 



Jojfelyns Voyage, 85. 

 Enfant du Diable, Bete puante, Charlevoix Nouv. France, v. 196. 

 Skunk, Pennant's Rift. Quad. vol. ii. p. 05. 

 Le Chin che, de Buffon, xiii. 294. tab. xxxix. Schreber, cxxi. 



THIS animal, known to the natives of Brafil by the name of the Chinche, 

 is about the fize of a Domeltic Cat; its nofe is long and llender, and extends 

 a conliderable way beyond the lower jaw; its ears are fhort and rounded; a 

 white Itripe is drawn from the nofe over the forehead, and the upper part of 

 the neck, till it is interfered by a black line, that commences at the tail and 

 afcends towards the middle of the back, which would otherwife be entirely 

 white: its belly and legs are black; its tail, abounding with long, coarfe 

 hair, is generally black; fometimes, however, it is fringed with white at the 

 extremity : and it has been defcribed by fome naturalilts as being perfectly 

 white. The nails on each of the feet are extremely long, like thofe on the 

 fore feet of a Badger. 



The Skunk, like the Stifling, the Conepate, and the Zorilla, is remarkable, 

 for a foetid, fufFocating vapour, which it emits from behind, as its bell means 



