22§ 
i6z. Ichneu¬ 
mon, 
WEESEL, 
l%V£V[/.MV. Ariflot. hifl. An. lib. ix. 
c. 6 . Oppian Cyneg. ill. 407. . 
Ichneumon Plinii, lib. viii. c. 24. 
L’Ichneumon, que les Egyptians 
nomment Rat * de Pharaon. Be- 
lon obf. Q$. Portraits 106. Profp. 
Alp. I. 234. Gefner quad. 566. Rail 
fyn. quad. 202. Shaw's Travels , 
249, 376. 
Muftela ^Egyptiaca Klein quad. 
64. 
Q, Indian. Quil, vel Quirpele 
“ Garcia Arotn. 214. Rail fyn. 
quad. 197. 
Viverra Mungo. Kcempfer A- 
mcen. C74. 
De Mongkos Valentyn Amboin. 
III. 
Serpenticida five Moncus. 
Rumph. herb. Amboin. App. 69. 
tab. xxviii. 
Meles Ichneumon digitis mediis. 
longioribus, lateralibus aequali- 
bus, unguibus lubuniformibus, 
Hajfelquifl itin. 191. 
Ichneumon : Mus Pharaonis vul- 
go . Briffon quad. 181. 
Viverra Ichneumon. V. cauda e 
bafi incraffata fenfim attenuata, 
pollicibus remotiufculis. Lin.fyjh 
63- 
Indian Ichneumon Edw. 199. 
Ichneumon feu vulpecula ceilo- 
nica Seb. Muf. I. 66. tab. xli. fg. 
1. 
La Mangoufte Bujfon , xiii. 130. 
tab. xix. 
Viverra indica. V. ex grifeo ru- 
fefcens. Briffon quad. 177. Rail 
Jyn. quad. 198. 
W. with bright flame-colored eyes : fmall rounded 
ears, almofl: naked : nofe long and (lender: body 
thicker than that of others of this genus : tail very 
thick at the bafe, tapering to a point: legs (hort: 
the hair is hard and coarfe: color various in dif¬ 
ferent animals, from different countries; in fome, 
alternately barred with dull yellowifh brown and 
white ; in others, pale brown and moufe-colored; 
fo that the animal appears mottled : throat and belly 
of a uniform brown : beneath the tail is an orifice 
not unlike that of a badger: differs in flze: from 
twenty-four to forty-two inches in length, from the 
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* The Egyptians never ftyle it Phar, or Moufe, but Nems, or 
Terret, from its refemblance to that animal. Hajfelquifl. 196. 
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