55 AIAMMALIA. rER.«. Muftela. 
Nqfe dufky, tongue veiy long; ears fhort, rounded; dufr)'' 
belly yellowifti-white ; under part of the paws naked, verii'"' 
ion ; claws 5 on each foot,, hooked, clianneled beneath, 
Mdlivora. Back cinereous ; late,ral band black ; belly black ; cla''* 
long, hollow underneath, formed for digging< 
Inhabits tlie Cape oj- Good Hope j. feeds on wild honey and 
to which it is guided by the cucidus indicator, or Iioncy-giUil* 
cuckoo, which feeds on bees. 
Fafciata. Hair of the tail long, black and tawnyilh ; body grey, 
6 black longitudinal ftripes, beneath white. 
Striped Fitchd 
Inhabits India : 2 feet g inches long, 
lore-teeth in each jaw 2, tujks 14; feet 5-tped; claws ilrot'h' 
hooked; eyes vivid. 
Tail long, annulate with black ; body grey, dotted abo''^ 
with black ; above the eyes 4 round fpots ; on the 
and back 3 black Itripes. 
Inhabits Malacca j fierce, aftive, leaping from tree to tree, li'-'^'' 
by prey, finells of inufk, retains its urine a long time; wbi*-'' 
is uled by' the Malays as an aphrodiliac and Itrengthencf ' 
fize and habits of a cat. 
Body with 6 rows of linall, black fpots, 7 in a row ; head on tl'’ 
upper part, thighs, znd legs hhek', claws g, hooked, lharp' 
retraftile ; fnout long, 
MactilatOi Body, legs, and tail, black, irregularly fpotted with whit‘d' 
Spotted Fitchti' 
Inliabits New South Wales ; about 1 p- foot long. 
/’are long ; ears Iwcge, blunt, ereft; whijkers long, reverfed' 
tail long, taper ; /«t long, refting on the heels, 5-tocd, 
inner toe of the hind-fept Icparated from the reft, fmall, diod' 
Malaccen- 
fu. 
18. MUSTELA. Foreteeth upper 6, 
acuter, dillinft, lower 6, obtufeP> 
crowded, 2 placed within: tong^^ 
fmooth. 
In many circurnffances the otters and wetjels refemble each otb^’’' 
body long, of the fame tbicknefs, feet fhort, hair fhini”^' 
claws immoveable, burrosv in the ground, proWl and 
by night ; but the otters live moflly in the water, fwim 
