398 ZIBET. 
and headach ; but becomes more agreeable by 
keeping the qaantity obtained each time 
amounts to about a dram. 
Civets though an article in the more ancient 
materia medica, and thougli still employed by the 
oriental physicians, is with us chiefly used in per- 
fumes. It has a very fragrant smell, and a sub- 
acrid taste: it unites readily with oils, both ex- 
pressed and distilled ; in ^yatery or spirituous men- 
strua it does not dissolve, but impregnates the 
fluids strongly with its odour. It may, however, 
be made to unite with, or be soluble in water, 
by means of rubbing with mucilages. 
ZIBET. 
Viverra Zibetha. V. cauda amulata, dorso cinereo nigroque un- 
datim striata. Lin, Syst. Nat, Gmel. p. 89. 
Ash-grey W. with black undulations and annulated tail. 
Felis Zibethi. Gesiu Quadr. 837. 
Animal Zibethi, vel Hysena veterum Bellonii. Aldr, dig. 343. 
Zibet. Buff. p. pi. ^1. 
This, which was figured as a variety by Gesner, 
and more precisely discriminated by liulfon, seems 
to be considered by modern naturalists as a dis- 
tinct species ; ^1y. Pennant, however, even in his 
last edition, still regards it as the same with the 
* This is denied by the French academicians of the last cen- 
tury, who say, that after keeping it a year it seemed to smell ex* 
actly as at first. 
