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VERTEBRATxV. 
THE BLACK BIXTUROXG. — [See p. 17 7. J 
THE yiYEKEIDES. 
This family includes a great number of animals, all much smaller than the bears, and having 
a resemblance to the Civet, or Viveira, in form and habits. They are divided into several tribes, 
as the Subursins, Viverrins, and Mangoustes. 
THE SUBURSINS. 
This tribe derives its name — Avliich means an inferior sort of bear — from the resemblance of 
the raccoon, and some other of its species, to the bear. 
THE KlNKAJOn. 
Genus KINKAJOTJ : Cercoleptes. — Of this genus there is a single species, the Manaviri or 
KiNKAJOU, or KiKKAJOU PoTTO, 0. caudivolvzilus, a graceful animal, somewhat smaller than a cat, 
