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VIVERRID^. 



Paradoxurus bondar, Gray, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 60 ; Illust. Lid. Zool. t. ; 



P. Z. S. 1864, p. 531. 

 Paradoxurus Peunantii, Grai/, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 66; Illust. Ind. 



Zool. t. 

 Paradoxurus hirsutus, Hodgson, Asiatic Researches, xix. p. 72, 1836. 

 Genetta bondar. Lesson, Mamm. p. 175. 



Hab. Nepal: North Behar and Tarai (ifof?(7SO«). 



This species is easily known from P. Orayi by the rigid harsh- 

 ness of the fur and the dark colour of the outside of the legs. 



Skull narrow, elongate. False grinders distant, the third trigo- 

 nal ; flesh-tooth narrow, elongate, the outer edge longer than the 

 width of the front edge, with the inner lobe on the front margin ; 

 tubercular grinder oblong, transverse, rather nari'ower and rounded 

 on the inner side, wider than long ; the hinder tubercular small, 

 oblong, subcircular. Length of skull 4" 1^'", of nose 1" 5'" ; width 

 of brain-case 1" 4|'", of zygoma 2" 3'". 



** The skull 7noderatehj broad ; the width of the head at the last tooth about 

 four-Jifths of the leiu/th of the palate ; the jlesh-tooth rather longer than 

 wide in front, with a moderate-sized internal lobe on the front edge. 

 Platyscliista.— Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 531. 



2. Paradoxurus zeylanicus. B.M. 



Nearly uniform brown or dark brown : the longer hairs with a 

 bright golden tint : ears nearly naked ; whiskers pale brown ; tail 

 subcylindrical, sometimes with a single yellow or pale subtermiual 

 band ; heel of hind feet hairy. Length of body and head 21 inches, 

 tail 17 inches. 



Paradoxurus zeylanicus, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 55 ; P. Z. S. 



1864, p. 531. 

 Viverra zeylanica, Pallas in Schreb. Sdngeth. 45. 

 Viverra ceylonensis, Bodd. 

 ? Paradoxurus aureus, Desm. 3Iamm. p. 540 ; F. Cuvier, Mem. Mtis. 



ix. p. 47, t. 4. 

 Paradoxurus typicus, De Blainv. Osteogr. Viverra, t. 12 (teeth), t. 7 



(skull, good). 

 ? Arctictis aureus, Fischer, Syti. Mamm. p. 158. 



Hnh. Ceylon (Pallas, Kelaart). 



These animals differ in the intensity of the colour of the fur ; 

 some are bright golden, and others much more brown ; the latter is 

 P. fuscus of Kelaart. One of the Museum specimens has a bright 

 yellow ring near the tip of the tail. 



Third upper false grinders with only a slight indication of a lobe 

 in the middle of the inner edge ; the flesh-tooth with the outer edge 

 scarcely longer than the width of the front edge ; first tubercular 

 large (with the inner edge narrower than the outer one), larger than 

 in P. pMlippensis. 



Dr. Kelaart has described, and we have in the British Museum, 

 two varieties of P. zeylanicvs differing in the intensity of the colour 

 of the fur. In the British Museum we have three skulls, with their 

 permanent teeth, said to have been sent from Ceylon, one being from 



