The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects (1854)
Gould, Augustus A. (Augustus Addison), 1805-1866, Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI, Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI · Boston : Phillips, Sampson, and Company · leaf 96
&8 ; ‘whe MAMMALIA—MONGOOS. … THE mongoos is less than the macauco; but its hair is, like that, ot a short and silken nature, but a little curled; the nose is also thicker. Buffon had a mongoos in his possession for several years ; its coat was of a brown color, the eyes yellow, the nose black, and the ears short. It had a…
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