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Ztylantca. 
Cap(nji$, 
Givetta. 
Zibetha, 
Jlerma. 
■phrodita. 
Qcndta,, 
MAMMALIA, FER,ffi. Viverra. 
Above cinereous misted with brown, beneath whitilli. 
Inhabit Ceylon ; in fi7.e and habits relembling the martin. 
Feet 5-toed ; claws a little retraftile ; tail as long as the bo^ ' 
thicker at the bale ; whijkers in 5 rows, white ; lower 
dentate; upper fore-teet/i, tlic lateral longer conic, the lO* ' 
die obtufe ; tongue warty. 
Black ; back grey, edged with white. Cape FVeefi. 
Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, and Guinea; feeds on 
honey ; emits an intolerable vapour. 
Ears o ; hair long, rough ; 2 feet long, tail 8 inches. 
Tail above fpotted, brown towards the tip ; mane chefnht' 
back fpotted with cinereous and brown, 
Inhabits ^Ethiopia, Guinea, Congo, and Cape of Good Hope- 
Under the eyes a fpot; back covered with rounded chefnut fp'’** 
which towards the thighs run into ftreaks; kgs blackii*'' 
brown ; grinders each lide each jaw 6 ; fnont {harp, black t 
the tip. The perfume named civet is produced by this air 
the next Ipecies, from the orilice under the anus ; of a C®*' 
Tail annulate ; hack with grey and black waved ftreaks- 
Inhabits Arabia, Malabar, Siam, and the Philippine ijles ; 
rocious, hardly' tameable, and cafily returning to its origi*’* 
wildnels; when angry erefts the hair of the back ; bites; "i*’* 
fmall animals, birds, fiflr, roots and fruit ; climbs and 
with eafe. 
Body flenderer than the civet; fnoul longer, concave abo''^' 
cars covered, fhorter; upper 6, parallel, interinf 
tliatc ones lefs ; lower parallel, intermediate one-s fliorter, 
temately placed within ; hair coarfe, dole ; feet brown, 
neath black : length 2^ feet; produces civet. 
Tall long, black at the tip ; back with three black ftres!^*' 
Inhabits Barbary, . 
Snout from the tip to the eyes and beyond black ; throat, 
hers, feet, black ; beneatlr the eyes and between the whifk'-’’!/ 
a white fpot; hair long, cinereous, tipt with black; 
longer tlian the body; claws yellow ; between the penis 
anus a naked tender {kin, with a double fold. * 
Tail annulate; body fpotted, blackilh-tawny. 
Inhabits weftem Afia, Spain, and France: mild and eafily taiD^^’ 
hunts mice, fmells of mulk, but weakly : 1 7 inches long- , 
Snout more acute, feet fliorter, tail longer than the zibet ; 
trs on each fide 6 3 kair cinereous, black, or tawTiy at the tif 
