7G 
NATURAIj HISTORY 
COATI-MONDI. 
This animal is of a smaller size than the 
racoon. Its body and neck, its head and 
nose are of a more lengthened form. Its 
upper jaw is an inch or an inch and a half 
longer than the lower one ; and its snout, 
which is moveuble in every division, turns 
up at tile point. The eyes of the Coati- 
Mondi are also smaller than those of the 
racoon. Its hair is longer and coarser; its 
legs are shorter, and its feet longer, but like 
the racoon, its tail is diversified with rings; 
and to all its feet there are five claws. 
The Coati-Mondi is an animal of prey, 
which, like the fox, destroys small animals 
and poultry, hunts for the nests of birds, and 
devours their eggs: and from this conformity 
of disposition, some authors have considered 
it a species of small fox. 
