FASCIATED WEASEL. 
THE Fasciated Weasel appears to have been 
first figured and described by Sonnerat, in his 
celebrated Voyages. It is the Viverra Fas- 
ciata, or Striped Fitchet, of Gmelin's Lin- 
naeus ; and is sometimes denominated, the 
Grey Weasel with Six Longitudinal Black' 
Bands. Sonnerat calls it, the Wild Cat of 
the Indies with Black Bands. 
It does not appear to us, that subsequent 
naturalists have added any thing essential to 
what Sonnerat mentions with regard to the 
history and description of this animal. 
It measures,, as he tells us, two feet from 
the head to the tail j the latter being, nine 
inches long. There are, in each jaw,, two 
cutting and sixteen canine teeth ; the cutting 
teeth in the lower jaw being considerably 
stronger than those in the upper. The body 
is long : and the animal is covered with close 
and even hair, of a grey colour ; tinged with 
reddish, on the lower parts of the head, neck, 
