MAMMALIA — CARNIVORA. 
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Laurillard asserts, that Morren has found, in the tertiary formation at 
Brussels, the remains of a Badger intermingled with those of Batrachia^ 
Snakes, Birds, and Shark teeth. He proposes the name Meles Morreni 
(D’Orb. Diet. Univ. ii. p. 593) for the species. 
H. von Meyer has obtained from the brown coal of Kapfnach, in 
Switzerland, a fragment of the under jaw with the teeth, of a genus 
intermediate between the Badger and Weasel, which he has named 
Trochictis. The species is named Tr. carbonaria ( J ahrb. F. Min. 1842, 
p. 586). 
It was announced, in the “ Oversigt over det K. danske Vetensk, 
Selskabs Forhandl. i. Aar. 1841,” that Lund had discovered, among the 
Brazilian beasts of prey at present existing, a new genus, between that 
of the Wolverene (Jaerv.) and the Dog, which has been named by him 
Cynogale venatica. Farther information must be waited for before the 
family of the said species can be determined. 
ViVERRiNA.— Mr. T. E. H. Thomson has described, in the 
Annals of Nat. Hist. x. p. 204, a Genetta Ricliardsonii from 
Fernando Po. 
Rich fulvous ; three streaks on the nape ; numerous unequal spots on 
the back, sides, and limbs, and twelve bands on the tail black; nose 
grey; feet greyish fulvous, scarcely spotted; legs, cheeks, belly, and 
inner side of limbs brighter fulvous ; body 13^, tail 12^ inches. Might 
not this be a young Genetta poensis, Wat. ? 
The difference between the Algerine Genetts and those of the Cape 
and South of Europe, has been shown by Lereboullet (Mem. de Strasb. 
iii. p. 7). The Strasburg Museum possesses a specimen of each of these 
Genetts ; but no special habitat is assigned to the latter. The author 
finds the following difference : — The Algerine Genett has larger, closer, 
darker, and full spots ; a peculiar white spot above the eye is wanting ; 
the paws brown. In the Cape Genett the spots are more distant, fulvous 
in the middle ; the paws grey. In the European Genett the tail is longer 
than the body ; in the Algerine it reaches to the eye ; in the Cape Genett 
to the nape ; and has eleven black rings, and a white tip, while the others 
have only nine ; and the ear is hairy inside, in the others the edges only 
are so. The reporter remarks, that a supposed Spanish Genett, of the 
Vienna Museum, agrees pretty nearly in the colour and length of the 
tail, since it has about ten black rings, with a brownish-yellow tip, and 
is as long as the body (each 17") ; there are also spots on the sides, full 
and large, like the Strasburg specimen. We might thus distinguish this 
Genett as Viverra gennetta, var. Europea, if these marks should prove 
to be constant in several individuals. 
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