American types of animal life (1894) (17539197794)

Title: American types of animal life
Identifier: americantypesof00miva (find matches)
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Mivart, St. George Jackson, 1827-1900
Subjects: Zoology; Animal behavior
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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THE RACOON 231 with longer and more pointed muzzles than the cats, standing lower on the limbs, and with a second blunt or tubercular molar, or grinding tooth, on either side of the Fig. 62.
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THE POIANA, upper jaw, and claws less retractile than those of the cats. The civets are handsomely marked, striped and spotted animals, as are also the genets and three allied forms called linsangs, which come from India and the Malay Archipelago. The civets, about the size of a large