YELLOW WEASEL. 
We would not, were we engaged in a work 
strictly systematical, hastily venture to disturb, 
on light grounds, what experienced naturalists 
have agreed to receive into it's supposed ' due 
station according to the Linnaean arrangement ; 
and yet, even in this unassuming collection, 
though we consent to describe the animal un- 
der the name of a Weasel, we cannot consci- 
entiously do so, without entering somewhat 
like a protest against it's propriety. 
' In short, from it's size, description, and 
, other circumstances in it's history, we incline 
to consider it rather as of the Maucauco, than 
of the Weasel race: nor does it to us seem 
very improbable, that the identical animal in 
question might be, in- reality, the Potto of 
Guinea. 
Nothing is more certain, than that the ex- 
hibitors of uncommon animals frequently give 
erroneous accounts of the places from whence 
they have been obtained: sometimes, from 
having themselves been misinformed; and, 
sometimes, it is to be feared, from a desire to 
Work on credulous curiosity, by pretending that 
.they are natives of some country where they 
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