CARNIVORA. 
defend themselves with the teeth ; and, as the canine 
teeth are angular, they are sometimes able to cut 
the throat of their enemy. 
THE KINKAJOU. LE KINKAJOU, OU POTTO. 
Vlverra Caudivolvula, Gm. 
This animal is found in America ; and its situation, 
relative to other quadrupeds, has been but of late 
systematically determined. It has been considered 
a lemur, and is called by Pennant the yellow ma- 
cauco ; and Gmelin, in his edition of the Systema 
Naturae, places it among the viverrce, with the epithet 
caudivolvula ; but it has recently been ascertained 
to be a plantigrade, and is placed in this family by 
Illiger as a genus, under the name of cercoleptes. 
The canine teeth stand alone, and are much longer 
than the rest, of a conical shape, and those of the 
lower jaw are longer than those of the upper 5 there 
are five cheek-teeth in each jaw'^, the first two of 
which, being pointed, have the carnivorous character, 
and the latter three are tubercular. There are five 
toes on each foot, the palm of which is naked, and 
plantigrade, and the nails are bent and sharp. The 
tail is long and prehensile. The face is short, the 
ears short and round, and the tongue long and ex- 
tensible. 
* Pallas says six. 
