YELLOW WEASEL. 
belly, there is a broad dusky list, ending at the 
tail ; and there is another from the head, along 
the middle of the back, to the tail. The tail, 
which is of a bright tawny, mixed with black, 
has the same prehensile faculty as that of some 
of the Monkeys, The length of the animal, 
from the nose to the tail, is nineteen inches ; 
that of the tail, is seventeen. 
It was, according to Pennant, very good- 
natured and sportive: would catch hold of 
any thing with it's tail, and suspend itself ; and 
lay with it's head under it's legs and belly. 
These manners, we may be permitted to re- 
mark, but little correspond with those of the 
Weasel race ; yet sufficiently accord with that 
of the Maucauco. 
In short, it is not very improbable, that this 
animal might be conveyed from the Guinea 
Coast to the West Indies, in one of the slave- 
ships ; and be afterwards taken to England by 
a West-India trader, as a native of Jamaica, 
from whence it last came. Certain it is, that 
not the smallest appearance of such a quadru- 
ped can be traced in any account of the na- 
tural productions of that well-described island t 
