PARADOXURUS MUSSCHENBROEKII. 43 



NOTE XIV. 

 PARADOXUXUS MUSSCHENBROERIL 



BY 



H. SCHLEGEL. 



Jan. 1879, 



The following note of this undescribed species , discov- 

 ered by S. C. I. W. van Musschenbroek , Esq. L. L. D., 

 in the Northern parts of the isle of Celebes , has been pub- 

 lished by me in the prospectus of a work , entitled «An- 

 nals of the Royal Zoological Museum of the Netherlands 

 at Leyden." This work not having yet appeared, I repro- 

 duce here the above-said note for the benefit of the read- 

 ers of the present periodical. 



«It is remarkable for its superior size , its short and 

 smooth fur , its tail furnished with black rings , like those of 

 the Paradoxurus annulatus and its yellowish or grayish brown 

 colour , paler towards the head , passing on the basal surface 

 into a dirty ochre-yellow and interrupted along the back 

 by several series of dark but rather indistinct spots , mel- 

 ted confusedly into four longitudinal stripes , whereas a 

 blackish stripe runs from the shoulder along the hind 

 margin of the fore-arm. Length of the tail equalling that 

 of the trunk. Whiskers yellowish white, or partly of a 

 brown colour." 



Notes froin the Ijeyden Museuir», 



