Descriptions of East Asiatic Mammals 147 
Kashmir to Assam, upper Burma and into China, where it 
extends through Szechwan and Yunnan into Fukien and For- 
mosa. In specimens from Indo-China and the Malay Peninsula 
the hind foot is naked above the plantar pad. Specimens from 
Indo-China, Annam, and Siam, with the head black, the shoul- 
Fig. 31. Yellow-throated Marten, Charronia flavigula. 
ders yellowish, and the abdomen pale, are C. f. indochinensis.' 
Those with the head brown and the nape, back, and abdomen 
brown, coming from Tenasserim and the Malay Peninsula, are 
named C. f. peninsular is. The form found on Formosa, named 
C. f. chrysospila, was said to have the head blackish brown. It 
may be identical to the Fukien animal. Northern races occur, 
C. f. borealis in Manchuria, C. f. koreana in Korea. 
The Polecats, subgenus Putorius, although placed nearer to 
the Weasels, are superficially somewhat similar to the Martens. 
