ICHNEUMON. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Viverra Ichneumon. V. cauda e basi incrassata sensim at- 
tenuata apice floccoso, pollicibus re- 
motiusculis. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1. 
p. 84. 
Tail very thick at the root, gradually ta- 
pering to the point, which is woolly $ 
inner toes somewhat remote from the 
rest. 
Mustela pilis ex albido et nigro variegatis 
vestita. Briss. Quadr. p. 181. 
Ichneumon. . . • Sm. Buff. v. 7 . p. 210 . pi. 225. Penn. 
Hist. Quadr. v. 2 . p. 54. Beta. 
Quadr. p. 237* Shaw Gen. Zool. 
pi. 92. 
M. d’Obsonville had a young ichneumon which 
he brought up, by feeding it at first with milk, 
and afterwards with baked meat mixed with rice. 
It was even tamer than a cat, came when call- 
ed, and followed him, though at liberty, into the 
country. 
“ One day,” says this gentleman, “ I brought to 
him a small water serpent alive, being desirous to 
know how far his instinct would carry him against 
