26 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 8. NIO 23. 



This animal is characterized from its nearest ally, the 

 large Indian Civet (Viverra zibelha L.) in having a black 

 stripe down the upper surface of the tail. The dark tail- 

 rings are also not interrupted below. In the Indian Civet, on 

 the contrary, the black stripe down the tail is totally absent 

 which together with some other characteristics separate the 

 two species from each other. Both are said to inhabit the 

 Burmese and the Indo-Chinese Countries according to Blan- 

 ford (Fauna of British India). 



During my stay in the forests north of the Meh Song 

 river, I once, when out hunting deer in company with my 

 native hunter Noi Khan, came across a Civet, but unfortu- 

 nately I did not get it. However, I believe it was a speci- 

 men of Viverra megaspila Blyth. because its tracks were 

 rather too large for a Viverra zibetha L. 



The dried skin in my collection measures 950 mm. from 

 tip of nose to root of tail. 



30. Herpestes sp. — A single specimen of a mohgoose 

 was observed one evening when I was waiting över a kill in 

 order to shoot a leopard. As I did not shoot the mungoose 

 I am unable to name the specimen, but probably it was a 

 specimen of Herpestes urva Hodgs. or H. javanicus Desm. 

 which both are rather common in Siarn according to Flower 

 (P. Z. S. 1900). 



31. Cyon rutilans S. Mull.? — I only once heard about 

 the occurrence of wild dögs in Siarn. When I was camping 

 in the forests at Nong Koh — a place in the Chantabon 

 province — the natives told me that they sometimes met 

 small parties of wild dögs chasing deer. But they knew 

 very little about them and said that they were rather rare. 

 I myself never succeeded in my efforts to get a specimen. 

 nor did the natives bring me any though I offered them 

 some money if they could bring me a wild dog either killed 

 or a Ii ve. Therefore it is impossible for me to state if the 

 species inhabiting Siarn is Cyon rutilans S. Mull., Cyon 

 dukhunensis Sykes or another species, but according to the 

 descriptions given by the natives it seems most probably 

 to have been C. rutilans. The other mentioned species is 

 much larger and more powerful than Cyon rutilans which 



