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V. ir.vr.ACCEN'srs, Giiiol. 



The common civct-cut. Ivyoung-ka-ilo. 



Tawny grey or greyisli-brown, with several lon^iitudinal lines en (lie baik ami 

 eroiip. The sides longitudinally spotted, sides of the iieek with some transverse bauds. 

 Kelly unspotted. Head darker, with a blaek stripe from the ear to the shoulder. 

 Tail long, with eight or nine dark annular rings. 



Length of head and body 22 to 23 inches; tail 16 to 17 inches. 



Common in Burma and the Malay countries. 



Mason remarks, speaking of this species, " The Indian civet-cats sccrcto an 

 odoriferous substance identical with 'civet,' though not the ' civef of eoninujrce. This 

 species is not infrequently found in the villages, and its secretion enters into the 

 liurmese Materia medica." 



ruioxoDON, Horsfidd. 

 Dentition, I. g ; C. f ; P. ^ ; M. i". 



Body slender. Limbs short. Claws retractile. Tail very long. Five toes on all 

 fept. Thumbs approximate. Soles well furred. No anal pouch. Mamm;c two 

 pectoral, two inguinal. 



P. P.UJDICOLOR, Horsf. 



Colour orange-buff or fulvous, spotted with black. Four irregular lines down the 

 neck, and seven longitudinal rows of scjuaiish or elliptic spots, each row consisting 

 transversely of eight spots, diminishing in size from the dorsal line. Below entirely 

 nn.spottcd. Tail with eight or nine anuuli. 



Head and body 16; tail 14 inches. 



Ranges from [N'ipal to the Kakhyen Hills, where Anderson procured a skin. 



P. MACULOSus, W. Blanford. 



" Upper part brownish-black, broken up by greyish-white bands, lower parts 

 ■white, tail brownish-black, with 7 white rings, tip whitish. Two broad black bands 

 run down each side of the upper part of the neck, between them is a narrow grej-ish 

 white band, with a faint mesial dark streak, somewhat interrupted, and passing into 

 two bands of elongate spots between the shoulders. The two broad dark bands pass 

 into the dark patches of the back ; on each side of these bands is a w^hite rather wavy 

 stripe, commencing at the ear and continued along the neck, above the shoulder, and 

 down the side to the thighs, becoming more iiTcgular behind ; below this again is 

 a dark band somewhat broken up into spots in front, passing over the shoulder, and 

 continued as a line of largo spots along the side. The back is chiefly brownish black, 

 crossed by six narrow transverse whitish bands, the first five equidistant, the foremost 

 communicating with the mesial neck band, and the hinder all uniting with the white 

 band on the side, so as to break up the dark colour into large spots. There are small 

 black spots on the fore neck, lower portion of the sides, and outside of the limbs, the 

 spots on the fore neck fomiing an imperfect gorget. The white rings on the tail arc 

 not much more than half the breadth of tlu! dark rings ; the last dark ring, near the 

 lip, and the first white ring, are narrower than the others. Nose dark bi-own mixed 

 with grey, a dark ring round each oibit, with a streak running back to below the ear, 

 and another passing up to the crown ; forehead between and behind the eyes, and in 

 ii'ont of the ears, and cheeks, pah; grey. I'lars rounded and clad with blackish hairs 

 outside, and near the margin inside, a few long pale hairs on the inner surface of the 

 car-conch. Whiskers long, extending to behind the ears, the upper brown, the lower 

 entirely white. Soles, except the i)ads, which are naked, covered with fine hair." 



Head and body 18-25 ; tail 16-75 = 35 inches. 



Ranges through Martaban and Tenasscrim. 



" This species,"Mr. Blanford remarks, " appears well distinguished from P. gracilis 

 and P. jpardicolor by its larger size, and by (he much greater prevalence of dark 

 colour on the upper surface generally. In external characters P. maculosus is nearer 

 to the Malay species, P. gracilis, the Hinuilayan P. pardicolor having the upper parts 

 covered with comparatively small spots, and more numerous rings on the tail. \Vith 



