"Coati" Quotes from Famous Books
... regia (the King Bird of Paradise), and since then nine or ten others have been named, all of which were first described from skins preserved by the savages of New Guinea, and generally more or less imperfect. These are now all known in the Malay Archipelago as "Burong coati," or dead birds, indicating that the Malay ... — The Malay Archipelago - Volume II. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace
... spear or biting ax, To right and left he thrust and smote— Ah! what a change! no sinewy thwacks Fall from a modern long-tail'd coati ... — The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... America we find another form of badger in the Coati mondi, of which there are several varieties; and there, too, the racoon appears of a species distinct from those of the north. Some writers class the coati with the civets, but the creature has far more of the habits and appearance of a badger than of a civet cat; and therefore, whatever the anatomists may say, we shall consider the coati ... — Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found - A Book of Zoology for Boys • Mayne Reid |