On the bush-dog (Icticyon venaticus, Lund.) / by William Henry Flower.

  • William Henry Flower
Date:
1880
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Credit: On the bush-dog (Icticyon venaticus, Lund.) / by William Henry Flower. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    (Plate X.) The death, on the 12th of December last, of the Bush-Dog from British Guiana, which was presented to the Society by Mr. Ernest Tinue on the 20th of August, 1879, has enabled me to place on record some notes on the anatomy of this somewhat aberrant member of the canine family, the viscera of which have not hitherto been examined. The first notice we have of this animal is by Lund, who described it under the name of Gynogale venatica1. Afterwards a more full description with osteological details and figures of the animal and skull were given by the same author ; and the generic name first imposed, having been already used by Gray for one of the Viverridge, was changed to Icticyon2. An extinct species from the Brazilian caves, Icticyon major, was also doubtfully referred to the same genus. In the ‘Annals and Magazine of Natural History,’ vol. xvii. p. 293 (1846), Dr. Gray, unaware of Lund’s memoir, described a specimen 1 P. W. Lund, “ Blik paa Brasiliens Dyreverden for sidsto Jordoravadtning. 4'J Afhandling,” Kong. Danske Videnskab. Solskabs, nat. og math. Afband- linger, ix. Deel (Kjobenlmvn, 1842), p. 201. • Ibid. 5,e Afhandling, XI. Dcel (1845), p. G2, Taf. xli. & xliii. [2]