-RIITG-TAILED MAUCAUCO. 
and perpetually in motion ; and, like all four- 
handed animals, moves in an oblique direc- 
tion. 
It is exceedingly cleanly; has a feeble cry; 
and, when taken young, is tamed with the 
greatest ease. 
The Ring-Tailed Maucauco, as well as 
most of the other species, is a gregarious ani- 
mal. They associate in flocks of thirty or 
forty ; and, apparently, concert together plans 
of operation, which are assisted, like those of 
the higher orders of animated life, by a mu- 
tuality of exertion* 
Goldsmith, in his account of the Coati- 
mondl, says — This animal is very subject 
to eat it's own tail, which is rather longer tliaa 
it's body : but this strange appetite," he adds, 
*V is not peculiar to the Coati alone; the Mo- 
coco," by which he means the Ring-Tailed 
Maucauco, " and some of the Monkey kinds, 
do tlie same, and seem to feel no pain in 
wounding a part of the body so remote from 
the centre of circulatioru" 
According 
