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.CARNIVORA. 
THE DELUNDUNG. 
Felis Gracilis. Horsfield. 
Dr, Horsfield has lately described a species^ or^ 
perhaps more properly^ a genus, intermediate be- 
tween the cats and the weasels. We have already 
had occasion to notice a, breed, presumed, very pro- 
bably, to be between the cat and the martin, which 
being prolific, will make a permanent point of con- 
tact between those animals. The delundung seems 
to be an existing similar link between the cats and 
the viverrse. Its cheek-teeth, however, which are 
purely carnivorous, correspond with neither of the 
genera to which it seems, in many diflPerent points, 
allied; for there are five in the upper jaw, and six 
below The head is more elongated than that of the 
cats in general ; the ears are rounded ; the body is 
very long ; and all the feet have five toes. These 
characters assimilate it to the viverrse. But it does 
not appear to have any anal pouch ; and the claws 
are perfectly retractile, and are, when at rest, en- 
tirely concealed by the surrounding fur, in which 
particulars it approaches the cats f. 
The weasel characters seem, by the description, 
* The cats we have seen have three or four in the upper jaw. 
The viverrae have six in each. 
t The claws of the viverrse are retractile, but it is in a slight 
degree. 
