vivERKrD.i;. 77 



black and grey, the separate hairs being grey at the base and black 

 at the ti}). The fur is soft, lengthened, and straggling. The entire 

 length of this species is 50 inches, 26 of which are occupied by 

 the head and body, and 24 by the tail. I could not discover any 

 external differences between the specimens which Mr. Hodgson 

 sent, under the name of P. quadriseriptus, from Nepal, and P. 

 musunga (see Proc. Zool. Soc. 1853, p. 191). The skull has not 

 been compared. 



Pakaboxukus prehensilis. Gray, P. Z. S. 1832, ii. p. 06 ; Illust. Ind. 

 Zool. ; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 543. 



Ichneumon preliensilis, Hamilton, MS. India House. 

 Viverra prehensilis, De Blainv. in Desm. Mamni. p. 208. 



Hah. India. — The species, which has only been described from 

 Dr. Buchanan Hamilton's drawing, copied in my ' Indian Zoology,' 

 has not j^et occurred to me. M. Temminck, who never could have 

 seen it, states it to be *' a constant variety" ot Paradoxurus musanga 

 (Esq. Zool. p. 120) ; but, as far as I know, P. musanga is confined 

 to the Malay Islands *. 



Paradoxurits Finlatsonii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 68, from Mr. Fin- 

 layson's drawing in Library of E. India Company ; Horsfield, Cat. 

 India House Mus. p. 65. — Hah. Malacca (^Finlaifson's draiving).— 

 Probably the same as P. musanga. 



Paradoxurus crassiceps, Pucheran, Kev. et Mag. Zool. \-ii. p. 392 ; 

 Arch, fiir Naturg. 1856, p. 43. 



Paradoxurus annulatus, "Wagner, in Schreber's Siiugeth. Suppl. ii. 

 p. 253 ; Schiuz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 386. " P. supra niger fulvo 

 mixtus, subtus ferrugineus, lutescens ; cauda nigro auuulata, aui'i- 

 culis dense pilosis. "'^ — Hab. ? (^2Iiis. JJunich). 



* M. De Blaiuville paid a visit to Dr. Leach in 1816. 1 accompanied 

 him to the College of Surgeons and the India House, where he was 

 shown the drawings of Buchanan Hamilton. He took notes of these 

 drawings, and on his return he published a paper in the Bidl. Soc. Philom. 

 for 1810, which he was then editing, descrioing : — 



1. Viverra prehensilis, from Ichneumon jn-ehensilis, Ham. MS. 



2. Cervm nif/er, Ham. MS. (By a mistake, he says the da-awing of the 

 animal is in the British Museum.) 



3. Capra ceyagnus coyrus, from C. (egagmis cogria, Ham. MS. n. 202. 



4. Capra (egagnus imherhis, from C. imberhis harhara, Ham. MS., and 

 C (egagnus chaigra, Ham. MS. 



5. Antilope qumlricornis, Ham. MS., of which he mistook the habitat, 

 " Hoormadabad," for the Indian name of the animal. 



