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CIVET CAT. 
This animal is found throughout India, 
Guinea, and the Philippine Islands, and is 
famous for producing the drug called music, 
or civet. He is kept for the sake of this per- 
fume, and fed with pap made of millet, with 
a little fish or flesh boiled in it. The musk 
scraped from the male is esteemed the best. 
These animals have been called Musk 
Cats, or Civet Cats; yet they have nothing 
in common with the Cat. They rather re- 
semble the fox, especially in the head. Their 
coat is diversified with stripes and spots ; a 
circumstance which has occasioned them to 
he mistaken for small panthers, by persons 
who had only seen them at a distance. In 
every other respect, however, they diftcr 
from the panther. 
