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tinged with yellow, marked with large duiky fpots 
difpofed in rows: the hair coarfe; that on the top 
of the body longeft, {landing up like a mane : the 
tail fometimes wholly black; fometimes fpottedl 
near the bafe : length, from nofe to tail, about two 
feet three inches; the tail fourteen inches : the body 
pretty thick. 
Inhabits India % the Philippine illes Guinea -f, 
A Ethiopia J, and Madagafcar § ; the famous drug 
mujk , or civet, is produced from an overture be¬ 
tween the privities and the anus, in both fexes, fe- 
creted from certain glands. The perfons who keep 
them procure the muik by fcraping the infide of this 
bag twice a week with an iron fpatula , and get 
about a dram each time; but it is feldom fold pure, 
being generally mixed with fuet or oil, to make it 
more weighty : the males yield the moil; efpecially 
when they are previoufly irritated: they are fed, 
when young, with pap made of millet, with a little 
flefh or fifti; when old, with raw fleih : in a wild 
ftate prey on fowl 
Zibet. Animal Zibethecum Felis Zibethus. Gefner quad. 836. 
Americanum. Hernande&Mex. Le Zibet, de Buffon, 299. tab. 
538. xxxi. 
W. with fhort rounded ears : (harp long nofe : pale 
cinereous face : head, and lower part of the neck., 
* Dellori s njoy. 82. 
** Argenfola, III. 
+ Bofman, 238. Barbot. II4. 
j Raunvolff^s Travels, II. 48 z. 
J Flacourt Madagafcar , i 54. where it is called Falanouc . 
mixed 
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