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CHINCFIE. 
This animal, the Viverra Mephitis of the 
LinntEan system, is by Pennant called the 
SIcunk. In the Museum Leveiianum, it has 
the appellation of the Mephitic ^Veasel. It 
is, the Skunk Fiskaittah, of Kalm's and of For- 
stei's Voyages, as ^yell as of the Travels of 
Josselyn, whose authority Pennant seems to 
have followed. Most modern naturalists, how- 
ever, agree with BulFon, who retains it's na- 
tive South-American name, Chinche; by which 
Feuillee originally described it, in his Obser- 
vations on Peru. Hernandez,, according to 
BufFoii, describes three species of MoufFettes, 
or Stinking: Polecats : two of them, he calls 
YsGuiepatis, a Mexican name and the third 
Conepatl. The first of these is what Buffoa 
calls the Coase, from the name Sqisash-,. which 
it receives in New Spain ; tlie second is oui? 
Chinche ; and the third is Catesby's American 
Polecat, called- by Brissoii the Striped Pole™ 
eat, but which EufFon describes under it's na- 
tive Mexican name, ConepatL It is this last 
animal, which is in fad: the Enfaat du Dia^ 
