. A System of natural history : containing scientifci [sic] and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . ith honey or sugar. His attention was immediately attracted if a birdflew near him, and he would watch it with an eagerness that could hardlybe diverted from its object : but he was dreadfully afraid of a cat, andendeavored to hide himself, the moment he saw an animal of that species,though he showed no symptoms of preparing for any defence. Bruce never > C. Brucci, Buff. M A M M A L I A —C I V E T. 155 heard that he had any voice. During the day he
. A System of natural history : containing scientifci [sic] and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . ith honey or sugar. His attention was immediately attracted if a birdflew near him, and he would watch it with an eagerness that could hardlybe diverted from its object : but he was dreadfully afraid of a cat, andendeavored to hide himself, the moment he saw an animal of that species,though he showed no symptoms of preparing for any defence. Bruce never > C. Brucci, Buff. M A M M A L I A —C I V E T. 155 heard that he had any voice. During the day he was inclined to sleep,but became restless and exceedingly unquiet as night on. Bruce describes his fennec as about ten inches long, and of a dirty whitecolor; the hair on the belly being softer, whiter, and longer than on the restof the body. There has been great diversity of opinion among naturalists concerningthis animal. Cuvier treats Bruces account as scarcely worthy of credit;but Denham and Clapperton, on their return from Central Africa, brought askin of the animal, and thus placed its existence beyond doubt. THE CI VE Tl. ^-v^ Is from two to three feet in length, stands from ten to twelve inches high,and has a tail half the length of its body. The hair is long, and the groundcolor of it is a brownish gray, interspersed with numerous transverse, inter-rupted bands or irregular spots of black. Along the centre of the back,from between the shoulders to the end of the tail, is a kind of mane, whichcan be erected or depressed as the animal pleases, and which is formedof black hairs, longer than those of the body. The sides of the neck andthe upper lip are nearly white. The legs, and the greater part of the tail, Viverra dvctta, Lin. The genus Viverra has six upper and six lower incisors ; twoupper and two lower canines ; twelve upper and twelve lower molars. Three falsemolars in the tipper jaw, conical and compressed, a larc;e carnivorous bicuspid tooth, andtwo tuber
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