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PREHENSILE AVEESEL. 
Viverra Caudivolvula. V.Jlava nigro-mixtaj cauda micolore pre- 
hensili, Lin. Syst, Nat. Gmel. p.^i> 
Yellow W. shaded with dusky, with prehensile tail, 
Yellow Macauco. Pennant Synops. Quadr.p. 138. 
Yellow Weesel. Pennant Quadr. 2. p. 59. 
Le Kinkajou Potot. Biif, suppl. 3. p. 2^1. pi, ^i. 
This animal was first described by Mr. Pen- 
nant in his Synopsis of Quadrupeds, under the 
name of the Yellow Macauco, a title which was 
afterwards changed to that of Yellow Weesel, in 
which genus it forms a kind of anomalous species, 
having a prehensile tail. It is nineteen inches in 
length from the nose to the tail, which is seven- 
teen inches long. The nose is short and dusky; 
the eyes small; the ears short, broad, and flap- 
ping, and placed at a great distance from each 
other : the head flat and broad ; the cheeks swell- 
ing out; the tongue very long: the legs and 
thighs short and thick; with five toes to each 
foot; claws large, slightly hooked, and flesh-co- 
loured. Its colour yellow, shaded with dusky. 
A blackish or dusky list runs down the back from 
head to tail, and a similar one half Avay down the 
belly. This animal is of gentle manners, active 
and playful, and hangs by its tail occasionally, in 
the manner of the prehensile-tailed Monkies. It 
is supposed to be a native of Jamaica. 
