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PROCEEDIXGS OF THE XATIOXAL MU8EU2I. 



VOL. 45. 



Genus UROGALE Mearns. 



1905. Urogale Meakns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, p. 435, May 13, 1905. 



Type. — Urogale cylindrura Mearns = U. everetti (Thomas). 

 Diagnostic characters. — A large member of the family Tupaiidse, 

 easily distinguished externally by its elongated snout and close- 

 hau-ed rounded tail, and craaially by its long rostrum, small zygo- 

 matic fenestra, and dentally by the large size and canine-Kke appear- 

 ance of i~ and the small rudimentary condition of i^. 



External characters. — Urogale, externally, is Hke the genus Tana^ 

 with the exception that the tail is not bushy or distichous, but rather 



close haired. The tail 

 has the same relative 

 length to the head and 

 body that it has in 

 Tana, but because of the 

 shorter hairs appears 

 much smaller. The 

 naked area on the nose, 

 the ear, the shoulder 

 stripe, and the arrange- 

 ment of footpads show 

 no differences in the 

 genera Tana and Uro- 

 gale. The claws, espe- 

 cially those of the fore 

 feet, are particularly 

 long and sharp like 

 those of Tana tana. The 

 color pattern does not 

 show a dorsal stripe. 

 The manmise are 2-2 = 4. 

 (Plate 6, fig. 3.) 



Cranial characters. — 

 The skull of Urogale is 

 built on the same general 

 plan as that of Tana, but 

 differs in many impor- 

 tant features. The skull 

 of Urogale on the whole is 

 hea^aer and more angu- 

 lar, although it is scarcely larger than that of Tana; the rostrum is rela- 

 tively heavier, has a more abrupt origin from the skull, and is enlarged 

 just back of the extremity to accommodate the canine-like incisors; 

 the temporal ridges are more prominent, but shorter, so that they 



Fig. 12.— Ueogale everetti; Type X 1; Reg. No. 79.5.3.11, 

 British Museum, Zamboanga, Mindanao, rnaiPPiNE Is- 

 lands. 



