174 RHINOGALID^. 



tudinal streak ; tail (all but the base) black ; nose and feet rather 

 brown ; under-fur brown. 



Rhinogale Melleri, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 575. 



Hah. East Africa {Dr. Meller). 



The skull is narrow, more especially the hinder portion. The face 

 is short and rather narrow. The forehead and crown of the head 

 form a gradually arched line from the end of the nose to the occiput. 

 The cavities for the temporal muscles are moderate ; they meet on 

 the crown, just over the hinder edge of the zygomatic arch, leaving a 

 large lozenge-shaped convex forehead between the orbits. The orbits 

 are rather small, the hinder edge incomplete ; the hinder part of 

 the palate between the temporal muscles moderately broad and short, 

 the hinder opening being in a line with the middle of the temporal 

 fossffi. The grinders are short, broad, and solid ; the carnassier 

 is triangular, the sides very nearly equal, the inner lobe being 

 broad and rounded and placed nearly in the middle of the outer side. 

 The tubercular grinders are oblong, transverse, with the inner side 

 rounded and nearly as broad as the outer one ; they are much worn, 

 showing that the animal was fully adult. 



2. MUNGOS. 



Head elongate. Nose slightly produced ; underside convex, with 

 close-pressed hairs, without any central groove. Body slender. Fur 

 rather harsh. Tail subcylindrical, covered with harsh hairs. Toes 

 5.5; front inner toe strong, hinder smaller. Claws strong, acute ; 

 front rather elongate, compressed, arched. Teeth 40 ; false grinders 

 f . |- ; flesh-tooth triangular, as broad as long ; tubercular grinders 

 |- . ^, upper transverse. 



Mimgos (partly), Ogilhy, MS. (see Proc. Zool. Soc. iii. p. 103, 1835). 

 Mungos, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 575. 



Ogilby separated the genus, because in the two African species he 

 examined there were only | false molars. 



M. Temmtnck, overloolang several organic peculiarities, unites 

 these animals and Herj^estes vitticoUis as a single species (see Esq. 

 Zool. p. 111). 



* Hack and tail (frizzled. 



1. Mungos gambianus. B.M. 



Grey, grizzled with black and grey, hair rigid, with a broad pale 

 ring and large black tip ; streak on side of neck, feet, and end of the 

 tail black ; lips, chin, and throat white ; beUy reddish ; hair of hind 

 limbs elongate, reddish. 



Young greyer ; the black tips of the hairs shorter. 

 Herpestes (Mungos) gambianus, Ocjilby, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 102 ; Schinz, 



Syn. Mamm. i. p. 374; Temm. Esq. Zool. p. 111. 

 Mimgos gambianus. Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 50 ; P. Z. S. 1864, 

 p. 575. 

 Hah. West Africa ; Gambia (Rendall). 



