2J0 
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fling. 
W E E S E L. 
j3. Dusky. Note and ears formed like the precede 
ing :'above and beneath the eye two fpots of 
white: hair on the back and Tides dufky at the 
roots, black in the middle, and tipt with yellow: 
chin, throat, (ides of the cheeks, and belly, yel- 
lowiflv: feet black : tail annulated with black and 
white : fometimes the tail is of an uniform dulky 
color *. Le Coati noiratre of M. de Buff on , tab. 
xlvii. the Coati-monai of Marcgrave. 
Inhabits Brafil and Guiana: feeds on fruits, eggs, 
and poultry : runs up trees very nimbly : eats like 
a dog, holding its food between its fore-legs : is 
eafily made tame : is very good-natured: makes a 
fort of whiffling noife : feems much inclined to deep 
in the day. Marcgrave obferves, that they are very 
fubjebt to gnaw their own tails. 
YzquiepatL Hernandez Mex. 332. Ichneumon de Yzquiepatl. Seb. 
Raii: fan. quad. 181. Klein quad. Muf. I. tab. xlii. 
72. Le Coafe de. Bujfon f xiii. 288. 
Meles furinamenfis. Brijfon quad. tab. xxxviii. 
185. 
W. with a ihort (lender nofe: (hort ears and legs : 
black-body, full of hair : tail long, of a black and 
white color: length, from nofe to tail, about eigh¬ 
teen inches. 
Inhabits Mexico , and perhaps other parts of Ame* 
rica. This, and the four following fpecies, re- 
* Defcribed as a dilfmft fpecies, by Unnaus, under the title of 
c vi c verra Narica. V. fubfufca , Cauda unicolore , 64. and by M. BriJou > 
under that of Ur/us nafo produflo et mobili , cauda unicohre , igo. 
markable 
