HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



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The Yellow MACAUCO. 



The Ring-tailed MACAUCO. 



THE Yellow Macauco has been claffed with the 

 "Weafel tribe by Mr Pennant, in his Hillary of 

 Quadrupeds; and it feems to bear fome general refem- 

 blance to that fpecies of animals. Its head is flat and 

 broad ; its ears are (hort, eyes fmall, body long and -(len- 

 der, legs and thighs fhort and thick, and it has five 

 ftraight toes on each foot : Its fur is fhort, foft, and 

 glofly, — of a black colour, mixed with yellow, on the 

 back ; the cheeks, inflde of the legs, and belly, yellow ; 

 along the back, from head to tail, there is a broad dufky 

 ftripe and another on the belly, half way from the tail, 



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