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ildnned as foon as killed, and the bladder taken 
carefully out. The Virginian fpccies is capable of 
being tamed, and will follow its matter like a dog : 
it never emits its vapour, except terrified. 
It breeds in hollow trees, or holes under ground, 
or in clefts of rocks : climbs trees with great agility 
kills poultry • eats eggs, and deftroys young birds.' 
Pole-catj or Skunk, Lawfon Ca- albis. Brijfoti quad. 1S1. 
rolina. Viyerra putorius. V. fufca lineis 
role-cat Catejby Carolina, II. quatuor dorfalibus parallelis al- 
Mnftela Americana fastida Klein bis.' Lin.fyjl. 64. 
quad. 64. _ _ Le Concpate deBuffon, xiii. 28S. 
iWuflela nigra taeniis in dorfb tab. xl. 
W. with rounded ears: head, neck, belly, legs, 
and tail, black: the back and fides marked with 
five parallel white lines ; one on the top of the back * 
the others on each fide: the fecond extends fome 
way up the tail, which is long, and bufhy towards 
the end: fize of a European Pole-cat the back 
more arched : varies in the difpofition of the ttripes. 
Inhabits N> America : when attacked, bridles up 
its hair, and flings its body into a round form : its 
vapour horrid. Du Pratz fays, that the male of 
the Pole cat , or Skunks is of a Alining black : per¬ 
haps the Coafe of M. de Buffon is the male j for his 
defcriptkm does not agree with the Tzquiepatl, which* 
he makes fynonymous. 
Chinchc 
