Crossword-Solution: GALICTIS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

One, the Galictis barbara, is a large bold animal that hunts in companies; and when these long-bodied creatures sit up erect, glaring with beady eyes, grinning and chattering at the passer-by, they look like little friars in black robes and grey cowls; but the expression on their round faces is malignant and bloodthirsty beyond anything in nature, and it would perhaps be more decent to liken them to devils rather than to humans.

These weasels were of the large common species, Galictis barbara, about the size of a cat; and were engaged in a pastime resembling a complicated dance, and so absorbed were they on that occasion that they took no notice of me when I walked up to within nine or ten yards of them, and stood still to watch the performance.

With a monotonous howl, not unlike that made by some dogs on a clear moonlight night, the yellow-breasted glutton (_Galictis barbara_, Wieg.), the omeyro of the Indians, announces his presence.

The Indians in hunting them employ the grison (_Galictis vittata_), a member of the weasel family, which is trained to enter the crevices of the rocks where the chinchillas lie concealed during the day.

GRISON (_Galictis vittata_), a carnivorous mammal, of the family _Mustelidae_, common in Central and South America and Mexico.