440 CARNIVOEA 



3Ieasurements. — Adult (summer pelage) from Sweden (from 

 skin): head and body, 825; tail, I'io (pencil, 75); hind foot, 

 140±. For cranial measui-ements see Table, p. 439. 



Specimens examined. — Sis, from the following localities : — 



Norway : Vaage, G^udbrandsdal, 1 (Genoa) ; Egersund, Stavanger, 

 1 skeleton and 1 skull. 



Sweden: Frastvik, 1; no exact locality, 1 skull (U.S.N.INI.). 



Lapland: No exact locality, 1 skull (U.S.N.M.). 

 6 skeleton, Egersund, Norway. K. H. Schaanning (c). (10. 11. 26. 1. 

 ? skull. 111. 10. 2:j. 1. 



Family VIVEREID^. 



1821. Vivcrrich: Gray, London Med. Repos., xv, p. 301, April 1, 1821. 



GefKjrapliical distribution. — Warmer portions of the Old World 

 (e.xclusive of Australia) ; north to the Iberian Peninsula and 

 southern France. 



Characters. — Dentition essentially as in the Mu»tdiflR', but 

 upper molars usually 2-2, and upper carnassial usually with 

 three outer cusps ; auditory bulla, when not rudimentary 

 (1 African genus), inflated, thin-walled, divided by a distinct 

 .septum into two chambers ; form usually rather slender, the legs 

 moderately short ; size moderate ; feet digitigrade. 



BemarliS. — The family Vicerridse is a tropical Old World 

 group, containing about 25 genei'a, the ranges of two of wliich 

 extend into the Mediterranean region of Europe. 



KEY TO THE EUROPEAN GENERA OF VIVEnRIDJE. 



General form ferret-like ; ear broader than high ; body and 



tail uniformly grizzled; bony palate extending behind 



molars in median line about half distance to hamulars ; 



orbit nearly or quite enclosed by bone posteriorly (^Mou- 



goose) Mangos, p. 140. 



General form cat-like ; ear higher than wide ; body spotted ; 



tail ringed ; bony palate extending behind molars in 



median line mucli less than half distance to hamulars ; 



orbit widely opening into temporal fossa (Genet) Gcnctta, p. 116. 



Genus MUNGOS Geoffroy and Cuvier. 



1795. Mnngos Geoffroy and Cuvier, ilagasin Encyclopedique, ii, p. 187 



(tnungo, p. 184). 

 1811. Herpcstrs Illigor, Prodr. Syst. ilamm. ct Avium, p. 135 (misspelt 



Hfipcrtes in text, corrected in list of errata, ]). 302) {ichneumon). 

 1824. Maiiijiista Horsfield, Zool. Researches in Java (Javanica). 

 1830. Maries Waglcr, Nat. Syst. dor Amphibien, p. 29 (Substitute for 



lIer2Kstcs Illigor, preoccupied in botany). Not of Pinel, 1792. 

 1842. Mango Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. Regne Anim., Mamm., p. 63 {ichneumon). 

 1907. Mangos Thomas, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th ser., xix, p. 119, 



January, 1907. 



Tjipc sjiecie.'y. — Yin rra miuu/o Gnielin. " 



Geographical iJi.s/ribuiioH. — Africa, southern Asia, and larger 



