The large and important group of Viverrines, or long-faced cat-like carnivores of the East Indies, (Family _Viverridae_), is well represented. It is the true Civets which furnish—some of them—the evil-smelling civet of commerce—an odor which we would gladly do without. The Common Civet-Cat, (_Viverra zibetha_), is the best known member of this Family, and it is easily recognized by its large size, heavily-spotted body and ring-streaked tail. It is common throughout the Malay Peninsula, and in many other portions of the Malay Archipelago. The larger Malayan Civet-Cat, (_V. malaccensis_), strongly resembles its understudy, but its black spots and blotches are larger and more intense, and in form it is much more robust. The large and handsome White-Whiskered Paradoxure, (_Paradoxurus leucomystax_), has been in the Park about six years, and to-day it coughs and snarls at the visitor just as it did in the beginning. It is a smooth-coated creature, colored like a puma, and comes from northern China. Other members of the Family _Viverridae_ contained in the collection are the Malayan Paradoxure, (_P. hermaphroditus_); the Black Paradoxure, (_P. niger_); the African Ichneumon, (_Herpestes ichneumon_), the strange black creature from the Malay Peninsula called the Binturong, or “Bear-Cat,” (_Arctictis binturong_), and the Suricate, or Slender-Tailed Meerkat, (_Suricata tetradactyla_), of South Africa. Into the Small-Mammal House have drifted and comfortably settled down several canine species which are not so well satisfied, elsewhere. The Black-Backed Jackal, (_Canis mesomelas_), of Africa, is one of the most interesting, and it is also the one that thrives best in captivity. It is very much like a dark phase of the Azara Dog, of South America, and it is the handsomest of all the Jackals. The Cape Hunting Dog, of eastern Africa, has for years been present in this building, and it will be kept as continuously as circumstances will permit. The New Mexico Desert Fox, (_Vulpes macrotis neomexicanus_), is a small understudy of the better known Swift or Kit Fox of the northern plains, but it has larger ears. Neither of these delicate little species seems to thrive in our large Fox Dens, which seem to be too large for them; but in this building they thrive and are quite content with life. The Swift Fox is the four-footed elf of the plains, and it is unfortunate that the poison laid for the fierce and cruel stock-killing wolves should prove its extermination—as it surely will, ere long.