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These five forms maj-now be arranged in a key, as follows, viz. : — 



A. Back and sides not or only obscu- 



rely striped and spotted. 

 ; (North India) ... ... crossi, Gray. 



B. Back and sides distinctly striped 



and spotted. 



a. Smaller, hindfoot 75-80 mm., 



greatest length of skull 



105-110 mm. Ground 



colour gray. (South 



India) ... ... ... niger, Desmarest. 



h. Larger, hindfoot 80-90 mm., 

 greatest length of skull 

 115-120 mm. 

 a^ Ground colour fulvous. 



(Assam) ... ... stridus, Horsfield. 



h^ Ground colour dull or 

 buffy white 



d' Crown of head black 



(Upper Burma) ... hinnanicus, Wroughton. 

 b' No black crown 



(North Malay) ... ravus, Miller. 



Paradoxurus crossi, Graj^ 



1832. Paradoxiirus crossi, Gra}^, P. Z.S., p. 66. 



1836. Paradoxurus hirsutus, Hodgson, As. Res., xix., p. 72. 



1864. Paradoxurus niijrifrons, Gray, P.Z.S., p. 635. 



A Paradoxurus showing ordinarily a mere smear of blackish 

 (often amounting to a dark mauve brown rather than to black) on 

 a grey ground. 



Hair fairlj^ long but rather coarse. Rarely showing definite 

 strijDes on the back and never the usual &T)ots on the flanks. Hodg- 

 son records it from the Nepal Terai, whence it occurs westwards 

 through Rohilcund, the Deccan and Central India to Rajputana. 



Paradoxurus niger, Desmarest. 



1820. Viverra niger, Desmarest, Mamm., p. 208. 



1820. Viverra bondar, Desmarest, 1. c, p. 210. 



1821. Paradoxurus tyjjus, F. Cxiyier, Hist. Nat.. Mamm., pi. 186. 

 1828. Paradoxurus leucopus, Ogilby, Zool. Journ., iv., p. 30(> 



(albino). 



1832. Paradoxurus jiaUasi, Gray, P. Z. S., p. 66. 



1891. Paradoxurus nictitatans, Taylor, J. B. N. H. S., vi., p. 2. 



A smaller animal than the preceding and either of the following. 

 The stripes and spots very heavily marked in deep black on a grey 

 ground. The type was from Pondicherry ; it ranges however from 



