JOURNAL 



OF THE 



BOMBAY 



latiral 



A 



No- 4.] 



BOMBAY, 1891. 



[Vol. VI. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF PALM-CIVET 

 (PARADOXURUS ) FOUND IN ORISSA. 



By James Taylor. 



(Read before the Bombay Natural History Society on[lst September 1891.) 



Received, 30 July, 1891. 



( With a Plate. ) 



Paradoxurus nictitatans, sp. nov. 



Head and Body 20 



Tail 18' 



Greatest length of Skull 4" 



Greatest breadth, of Skull If 



Muzzle blackish brown, lighter near the nose, a central white line 

 down the muzzle. Head grizzled black and white, a dark line through 

 eye to cheek, meeting another dark band from corner of mouth, en- 

 closing a whitish infra-orbital space. Cheek greyish-black with but 

 few white hairs. Forehead grizzled black and white, lighter over the 

 eyes, with central black line down the forehead to muzzle. Back of 

 neck and shoulders grizzled black and white, some hairs white, some 

 tipped black, others all black, forming a kind of saddle. Chin and 

 throat white, a broad white band passing up behind the ears, forming 

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