§60 BRASILIAN, AND FACIATED "WEASEL. 
plaintive note is cooing like a dove ; its menacing, 
hissing like a goose or a serpent ; its angry cry is 
confused. It is very fond of sugar, and all sweet 
things ; it eats fruits and vegetables of all kinds ; 
it will fly at poultry, catch them under the wing, 
suck the blood, and leave them without tearing 
them. It prefers a duck to a pullet; yet hates the 
water. 
Brasilian weasel, or coati-mgndi. 
The Brasilian weasel has the upper jaw length- 
ened into a pliant, moveable proboscis ; it is 
much longer than the lower jaw. Its ears are 
round, its eyes small, its nose dusky ; its hair is 
of a bright bay colour, and is smooth, soft, and 
glossy. Its tail is annulatcd with dusky and bay. 
It has a whitish breast. Its body measures eighteen 
inches, its tail thirteen. It is about the size of 
a cat. It will sometimes gnaw its own tail in 
sport. 
The dusky Brasilian weasel is a variety of the 
former. Its nose and ears are formed like those of 
the preceding ; but beneath each eye it has two 
spots of white ; the hair on its back and sides is 
dusky at the roots, black in the middle, and tipt 
with yellow. Its chin and throat, the sides of its 
cheeks, and its belly, are yellowish ; its feet arc 
black, and its tail is annulated with black and 
white. Sometimes the tail is of an uniform dusky 
colour. Linnaeus has described the variety with 
the tail of a uniform dusky colour, as a distinct 
species. 
Fasciated weasel.' 
This," says Mons. Sonne rat, measures two 
feet from the head to the tail, which is nine inches 
