. The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture . Themuzzle is very much produced or proboscidiform ; andthe jaws are furnished with twenty molars, the lani-aries or carnassials being surmounted with acuteconical tubercles. The ears are small, round, andbilobulated. The central papilte of the tongue arehorny. The fee
. The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture . Themuzzle is very much produced or proboscidiform ; andthe jaws are furnished with twenty molars, the lani-aries or carnassials being surmounted with acuteconical tubercles. The ears are small, round, andbilobulated. The central papilte of the tongue arehorny. The feet are plantigrade and pentadactylous,while the tail is flattened, of moderate length, but con-siderably thicker than that of the suricate. In theanal region there is a solitary glandular pouch. Thebody is only sixteen inches in length, not including thetail, which measures some eight inches. The fur pre-sents a tolerably uniform brownish colour, except onthe sides of the head, where it is much paler. Themangue feeds on small quadrupeds, insects, and fruits ;and in tlie domesticated state it is a cleanly docilecreature. THE POUGONNE {Paradoxm-us typus).—As thisanimal, in common with several of its allies, is calledthe musang, we purposely retain the subjoined dis-tinctive title. The term Paradoxure, by wdiich it is ■^\. likewise well known, is also applicable to other speciesof the same genus ; while to employ the name of palm-marten given to it by the French, would involve thesame uncertainty, being open to precisely similarob,ections. The Pougonne (tig. 27), is a native ofIndia, and is quite distinct from the genets, with which, The Pougonne (Parado,xurus typus). however, it has been frequently confounded. Thehead exhibits a thoroughly canine aspect, and themuzzle is much pointed. The jaws are supplied withforty teeth, twenty-four of them being molars. Thepupil of the eye is slit longitudinally, the ears beingrather large and rounded. The body is stnutisli, and
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