90 MAMMALS OF THE PACIFIC WORLD 



banded except in the Celebes form. The body is marked with 

 a definite pattern of dorsal stripes and lateral spots. The palm 

 civets have a very extensive range, from southern China through- 

 out the forested areas of southeastern Asia to Sumatra, the 

 Philippines, and Ceram. A record from the Aru Islands is 

 doubtful. In this great expanse of territory many forms have 

 been distinguished ; some islands have their own subspecies. Palm 

 civets of the East Indies, which are considered subspecies of 

 the Indian palm civet {Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) , differ 



Fig. S9— Palm Civet 



slightly in color, in the amount of white about the head and 

 cheeks, and in size. They are the size of a cat, but the legs are 

 shorter and the tail longer. The ground color of most of the 

 body is grayish buff, and a narrow black stripe extends down 

 the center of the back with two lines on each side. The black 

 tips of the longer hairs are sometimes so extensive that the pat- 

 tern is obscured. The lateral lines are often broken up into 

 spots, and the flanks and sides also are more or less spotted. 

 The feet and legs are black, as is the terminal half of the tail. 

 The Brown Palm Civet (Macrogalidia musschenbroeki) of 

 Celebes is quite different from other members of the group. Be- 

 cause of its peculiar skull characters it has been placed in a 

 separate genus. Its color is rufous brown with numerous white 

 hairs intermixed. The white face markings of other palm civets 



