mungoose

The cry of the mungoose is a grating mew, varied occasionally by a little querulous yelp, which seems to be given in an interrogative sort of way when searching for anything.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

I observed, and shot a weasel, or a _mungoose_ to-day, whilst it was employed feeding on the cast away skin of a goat or sheep, so that some of these creatures evidently feed occasionally on carrion, although they are said to live upon live prey.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

A puppy rending slippers, a child tearing up its picture books, a mungoose killing twenty chickens to feed on one, a freethinker demolishing ancient superstitions, what are they all but Dhobies in embryo?

Behind the Bungalow Edward Hamilton Aitken 1880

Jerdon's Nos. 127 and 128 differ only in colour and size; according to him the lighter and larger, _griseus_, being the Southern India mungoose, and the browner and smaller,

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

It is the only mungoose mentioned in Blyth's 'Catalogue of the Mammals of

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

I think it has been proved that if the poison of a snake is injected into the veins of a mungoose it proves fatal.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

I have put Burmah in the list of places where this mungoose is found, having lately been shown by Mr. Davison the skin of a stripe-necked mungoose obtained by him in Burmah, which seemed to be of this species.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

I do not believe in the mungoose being proof against snake poison, or in the antidote theory.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

Jerdon calls this the Madras mungoose, and separates it from the next species, but they are apparently the same.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

The whole party adjourned to the back settlements, where M.gdalen was edified by the antics of the mungoose, and admired the Begum and her progeny with a heartiness that would have won Thekla's heart, save that she remembered hearing Vera say, over the domestic cat in the morning, that M. A.'s were always devoted to cats.

Modern Broods Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862