WEESE l: 
Galera, fubfufca, canda elonga- Le Tayra qu le Galera de Fuffon? 
ta, auribus fubnudis apprelfis. xv. 155. 
" Browne's Jamaica, 485. tab. xlix. 
W. with the upper jaw much longer than the lower: 
eyes placed mid-way, between the ears and tip of 
‘ the nofe : ears like the human : tongue rough : tail 
declining downwards, lefiening towards the point: 
feet ftrong, and formed for digging: fhape of the 
body like that of a rat: fize of a fmall rabbet: of a 
dufky color : the hair rough. 
Inhabits Guinea: common about the negro fet- 
llcments : burrows like a rabbet: very fierce ; if 
drove to necefiity will fly at man or bead : very de- 
ftrudtive to poultry : feems to be the Kokeboe of 
Bofman *, which only differs in color, being red. 
Muftela Barbara. M. peaibus Muftela maxima atra mofcura 
fillis atra, collo fubtus .macula reddens, 'tayra , groffe Belette. 
al ba triloba. Lin. Jyft. 67. Barr ere France JEquin 155. 
| W. with round ears, covered, with down : an 
aih colored fpace between the eyes : a trilobated 
fpot on the lower part of the neck : fize of a mar¬ 
tin : color black: hairs coarfe. 
Inhabits Brafil and Guiana: when it rubs ltfelf 
againft trees, leaves behind an unftuous matter, 
that fcents of mufk. 
* Hifl. Gmea, 23^, 
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