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THE MAMMALS OE EGYPT, 
YIVERI11D.E. 
Subfamily VIVERRIN^. 
VIVERRA. 
Viverra, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. i. 1758, p. 43. 
Dentition : i. c. pm. m. | = 40, 
Form heavy, entirely digitigrade ; claws small and only partially retractile, not 
adapted for climbing. Large external scent-pouch opening beneath the anus. 
Viverra civetta, Schreb. 
Viverra civetta, Schreb. Saug. vol. hi. 1778, p. 418, pi. cxi.; Riippell, Neiie 'Wirbeltb. 1835, 
p. 34. 
Dr. Anderson made the following note on a specimen of the Civet labelled 
“ Kordofan, Dr. Riippell, 1825,” in the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfort-on-Main;— 
“ This is a large animal, measuring from snout to vent 666 millim. 
mm. 
Height of ear. 51 
Breadth of ear. 37 
Tarsus.112 
“ The lower lip and the parts around the nose as far as the back of the moustachial 
area are white. The chin, upper part of throat, cheeks, and between the eyes and 
slightly behind and partially above them dark brown; but, with the exception of a 
short dark narrow band directed upwards to the ear, the area of the head, behind the dark 
brown, is whitish grey to the vertex and downwards behind the brown of the upper throat. 
Below this is a brown collar prolonged downwards from below the ear, through the 
white of the side of the neck, which in its turn forms a white collar behind the former, 
passing round the front of the chest; and behind this again is another narrow brown 
band from the side of the neck on to the chest, with a wFite band behind it on the 
front of the shoulders. 
“ Riippell says that he met ivith the Civet in the southern districts of Abyssinia, 
Sennaar, and Kordofan, where it lived in holes in the ground, and w^as often kept in a 
state of domestication for the sake of its musk.” 
