THE CIVET CAT 



Generic Characters. 

 Six cutting teeth, and two canine teeth in each jaw. 

 Nofe Iharp, body llender. 

 Five toes on each foot. 



Stnonims. 

 Zibettus, Caii Opus, 43. 

 Felis Zibettus, Gefner Quad. 837. 

 Anima Zibethicum, Hernandez Mex. 580, 581. 

 Civet Cat, Rati Syn. Quad. 178. 

 La Civette, de Buffon, ix. 299. tab. xxxiv. 

 Meles fasciis et maculis albis nigris et rufescentibus 



variegata, Briffbn Quad. 186. 

 Coati Civetta vulgo, Klein Quad. 73. 

 Viverra Zibetha, Linn. Syjl. 65. 



THE Civet Cat bears a Urong refemblance to animals of the Weafel kind 

 in many particulars, but the nofe and tail are more extended, and the animal 

 is larger. Its length, from the nofe to the tail, is about two feet three inches; 

 the tail is fourteen inches long ; the body is rather thick in proportion to 

 the fize of the animal. The ears are rounded ; the eyes fky-blue ; the 

 nofe fliarp, and black at the tip ; the front of the face and fome part of the 

 fides of the neck are of a yellowifh white ; the fides of the face, as alfo the 

 chin, breaft, legs, and feet, are black : the tides and back are of a yellowifh 

 a ill-colour, beautifully marked with rows of large dufky ipots : the hair, in 



