NATURAL HISTORY. 55 
has fifty teeth; the eyes are black, lively, and placed 
upright ; the ears large, broad and tran{fparent ; the 
tail 1s partly covered with f{cales, and, partly with 
hair, which 1s fuppofed to be that part of the young 
which cannot be concealed in the pouch, and which 
nature, therefore, has provided with this armour. 
The feet refemble hands, having five toes or fingers, 
with' white crooked nails. 
The tailof this animal greatly refembles a {nake; 
by which it will fufpend itfelf on one tree, and, by 
{winging its body, throw itfelf among the branches 
of another. It deftroys poultry, fucking the blood 
without devouring the flefh; walks extremely flow, 
and, when overtaken, will feign itfelf dead. bp bay 
It is a native of Virginia, Louifiana, Mexico, Brazil 
and Peru. 
_ The other, lefs interefting, animals of the cat kind, 
‘are, the domeftic cat, wild cat, ounce, tiger cat, lynx, 
cougar, fiaguifh, Angora cat, ferval, black bear, 
brown bear, wolverine or glutton, raccoon, badger, 
marmoufe, cayopolin, phalanga and tarfier. 
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1 DIM IOK— 
- INDIAN MUSK, 

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der sth about feventeen inches. Its throat, brea{t and 
belly, are white, the fides and haunches {potted, and 
seabon of Ceylon, of an olive colour, and in 
‘bel 
barred tranfverfely with white. It has large open 
' €axs, and a very fhort tail, 
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