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WEESEL, 
the hair inclines to grey : about the fize of a martin * 
but the fur is fhorter. 
Inhabits Turkey , Syria, and Spain *, frequents the 
banks of rivers 3 fmells faintly of mufk, and, like 
the civet, has an orifice beneath the tail: is kept 
tame in the houfes at Conftantinople , and is as ufe- 
full as a cat in catching mice. 
£,a FojTane de Buffon, xiii. 163. tab. xx, 
W. with a {lender body : rounded ears : black eyes: 
body and legs covered with cinereous hair, mixed 
with tawny : iides of the face black : from the hind 
part of the head, towards the back and {boulders* 
extend four black lines : {boulders, fides, and thighs* 
black: tail annulated with black. 
Inhabits Madagafcar , and Guinea , Cochin-china , 
and the Philippine ifles: is fierce, and hard to be 
tamed : in Guinea is called Berbe ; by the Europeans % 
Wine-bibber, being very greedy of Palm-wine * ; 
deftroys poultry: is, when young, reckoned very 
good to eat 
* 
* Boftnan , 239. 
** Flacourfs lnft % Madagascar, 512. where it is called Fojfa ; 
Six 
C72,Fossane» 
