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Orissa on the east to Ceylon in the south and the Southern Mahra- 

 tha Country in the nortli. 



Paradoxurus strictus, Horsfield. 



1837. Paradoxurus strictus, Horsfield, A. M. N. H. (2), xvi., p. 105. 



1837. Parado.ntrus quadriscriiAns, Horsfield, 1. c, p. lOG. 



1910. Paradoxurus vicinus, iSchwarz, A. M, N. H. (8), vi.,p. 230. 



A larger animal, about the size of crossi. Fur long and soft, the 

 stripes and spots marked in black on a fulvous ground. Hodgson 

 records it from the central region of Nepal, whence it ranges east- 

 ward through Dai"jiling, Bhi^tan Duars, and Assam. Schwarz's 

 vicinus is a very brightly coloured specimen, with smaller measure- 

 ments, but it is quite a young animal. 



Paradomirus hirmanicus, sp. n. 



A Paradoxurus of fully average size, with distinct black stripes 

 and spots on a very pale, almost white, ground. 



Size as in strictus and crossi. Fur shorter and coarser than in 

 strictus. Head black, with the usual white blaze across the face, 

 between the eyes and the ears. General colour above a dull white 

 or very pale buffy gre}-, with the usual three median dorsal stripes, 

 and with scattered spots arranged more or less in lines parallel to the 

 stripes. 



Skull as in crossi, &c., but lighter and somewhat smaller. 



Dimensions of the type : — Head and body, 570 ; tail, 510 ; hind- 

 foot, 85 ; ear, 48. 



SJndl: — Greatest length, 110 ; condyio-basal length, 109;z3-go- 

 matic breadth, 60 ; palatilar length, 49 ; nasals, 25 ; back of m' 

 to front of p', 19. 



Habitat : — Burma. Type from Mingun, near Sagaing, Upper 

 Burma. 



T//^e:— Old female. B. M. No. 14. 7. 19. 89. Original number, 

 3261. Collected by Mr. G. C. Shortridge on 10th July 1913. 

 Presented to the National C^ollection by the Bombay Natural 

 History Society. 



This species seem to extend throughout Burma, including the 

 Shan States, till it meets the intruding North jNlalay toddy-cat 

 (P. ravus) in Tenasserim. It would seem also to extend eastwards 

 into Siam. Schwarz's cochinensis from Camboja, and Kloss's JcuAensis 

 seem both to be of this type, though both are much smaller, 



Paradoxurus ravus. Mill. 



1914. Paradoxurus ravus, Miller, Sm. Mix., Colls., Ixi., 21, p. 2. 



Veiy similar to hinvnicus, but easily recognisable by the absence 

 of the black on the crown. The type locality is Trong, S. W. Siam, 

 but it undoubtedly ranges through Tenasserim, and probably into 

 South Peon. 



