W E E S E L; 
&nd white ; the points black: only four toes on 
each foot, an exception in this genus : tail taper: 
length, from nofe to tail, about one foot ^ tail fix 
inches. 
Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope *, and the idand 
of Java **; is an a6live, lively animal: fits up¬ 
right, and drops its fore-legs on its bread:: is car¬ 
nivorous, and preys on the lefier creatures : very 
playfull: drinks its own urine : when difcontented, 
makes a noife like the barking of a whelp *, when 
pleafed, like a rattle fwiftly fhook. Defcribed only 
by M. de Buffon , who feems to have been deceived 
about its native place, 
XlozXi Marcgraaje Brafd. 22 %. De albo anfmlato. TJn.jyf. 64. 
Laet. 486. Raii Jyn. quad. 180. Urfus nafo produfto et mobili* 
Klein quad. 72. cauda annulatim variegata. Brif- 
Vulpes minor, roftro fuperiore fan quad. igo. 
longinfculo, cauda annulatim ex Le Coati bran, de Buffon, viii. 
nigro et rufo variegatS. Quachy. 358. tab. xlviii. 
Barr ere France JEquin. 167. Badger of Guiana. Bancroft, 141, 
Viverra nafua. V. rufa, cauda 
W. with the upper jaw lengthened into a pliant, 
moveable prohofcis , much longer than the lower 
jaw : ears rounded : eyes fmall: nofe dufky : hair 
on the body fmooth, foft and glofiy, of a bright 
bay color: tail annulated with dufky and bay : 
bread: whitidi: length, from nofe to tail, eighteen 
inches *, tail, thirteen. 
' * Balias Mifcell. Zool. 59, 60: 
** Rumph. Herb. Amboin. App. 71, fpeaking of the Ichneumon , Or 
Muncos , fays, ac difingumdus eji a Suracatje feu javanorum %upe, quod 
vfiMuflela* 
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ian. 
fi. Dusky, 
