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vansire Zool.
[a. F. vansire, formed by Buffon (1765) from the Malagasy name, given by him as vohang- or voangshira (otherwise recorded as vontsira).]
The marsh-ichneumon (Herpestes galera) of South Africa.
1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. III. ix. 362 To the ferret kind we may add an animal which Mr. Buffon calls the Vansire, the skin of which was sent him stuffed, from Madagascar. 1785Smellie tr. Buffon's Nat. Hist. (1791) VII. 222 The vansire..is a native of Madagascar and the interior parts of Africa. 1831Proc. Zool. Soc. Apr. 57 M. Goudot has brought a small carnivorous animal, which he states to be the true vansire. |