YELLOW WEASEL. 
LITTLE appears to be with certainty known 
respecting this species of animal. The living 
individual, represented in our annexed print, 
was exhibited about twenty years ago in Lon- 
don: and id's keeper, who said that it came 
from the mountains of Jamaica, called it the 
Potto ; a name which, Pennant observes, is 
" given, by some writers, to a species of Sloth 
found in Guinea." 
We apprehend, however, that the Potto to 
which Pennant would refer, is a Maucauco, 
and not a Sloth; being, in truth, as it appears to 
us, the Lemur Potto, of the Linnaean System, 
and figured and described by Bosnian in the 
second volume of his account of Guinea. 
Indeed, Mr. Pennant himself, in his Sy- 
nopsis of Quadrupeds, named the animal 
which we are now to describe, the Yellow 
Maucauco ; though, subsequently, in his His- 
tory of Quadrupeds, yielding perhaps to the 
classification of Schreber, who has figured 
and described it under the appellation of Vi- 
verra Caudivolvola, he denominates it the 
Yellow Weasel 
We 
