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CHINCHE. 
VIverra Mephitica. V.fusca dorso albo, Imea longitudinaU nigra. 
Brown W. with white back marked with a longitudinal black 
stripe, 
Viverra Mephitis. Lin, Syst, Nat. GmeL p. 88. 
Mephitic Weesel. Museum Lemrianumy No. 4. p, 173. pi. 6, 
Le Chinche. Buf. 13. p. 294. j?/. 39. 
This species is rather smaller than the former 
species. The head is small and flat, and the 
snout sharp and lengthened. The whole animal 
is of a blackish chocolate-brown, with a broad 
bed of white on the back, divided by a stripe of 
black, which sometimes passes along the whole 
length of the back, and sometimes not much 
more than half way from the tail, which is white 
at the tip and sides, with the remainder like the 
body; but it also varies with the tail all white or 
parti-coloured : along the forehead is a narrow 
white stripe reaching towards the neck. In man- 
ners and smell this resembles the two preceding 
animals. 
CHINGE. 
Viverra Chinge. V. nigra, cceruko nitens, vitta macularum albO'^ 
rum a capite ad caudam producta. 
Black W. with changeable cast of blue, with a row of white 
spots from head to tail. 
Chinge. Molina Chili. 269. 
This^ according to Molina, its first describer, 
seems in shape and general form to resemble the 
