CARNIVORA. 
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THE MU SANG. 
Viverra Musanga, Horsfield. 
The East India Company’s Museum appears, by 
Sir Stamford Raffles’s catalogue, in the thirteenth 
volume of the Linnean Transactions, to have a spe- 
cimen of this genus, which the Malays call musang 
bulan, and which is the same as Marsden describes. 
An elaborate description and figure of a Javanese 
variety of this animal is given in Dr. Horsfield’s Zoo- 
logical Researches in Java, now publishing. Its 
length is one foot ten inches, and the tail is eighteen 
inches. The body is variegated, gray and black, 
slightly inclining to tawny, very obscurely striated ; 
but the belly is lighter, and a light colour prevails 
round the throat and sides of the neck, and termi- 
nates in a point over each eye. The tail is tapering. 
The two following animals have many points of 
affinity, according to Dr. Horsfield, to this species. 
The habits of this animal accord with those of the 
genet. If taken while young, it becomes patient and 
gentle during confinement, and is said to receive 
readily animal and vegetable food. 
It is most abundant near the villages situate at 
the confines of large forests, and constructs a simple 
nest, in the manner of squirrels, of dry leaves, grass, 
and small twigs, in the forks of large branches, or in 
