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Sumatra. I repeat this pro memoria as it seems that the lat- 

 ter locality has been overlooked or not been accepted as trust- 

 worthy by some modern writers — (exceptions are Dr. W. 

 L. Sclater, Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, 1891, Part II, p. 241 and Dr. E. L. Trouessart, 

 Catalogus Mammalium tam viventium quam fossilium, 1897, 

 fasc. II, p. 327) — and because I am convinced that the 

 knowledge of exact localities, especially in the study of 

 the animals from the different islands of the Malayan Ar- 

 chipelago, is of the highest scientific interest, for without 

 this the geographical distribution of the Malayan mammals 

 will remain in a chaotic condition. 



An adult female with its young was captured in a snare 

 at Dingai-station d. d. 29 September 1896. The natives 

 call it Doengan. 



9 ad. Farbe der Iris dunkelsepiabraun. Der innere Iris- 

 ring lichte Sepia (gebrennt). Die Pupille ist rund, wasser- 

 hell mit grünem Schimmer. Farbe der Schuautze schwarz. 

 Die Ohrenspitzen analog der lichtbraunen Farbe des Halses. 

 Farbe des Racheus uud der Zunge blaulich. Form der 

 Augen stark gewölbt. Stellung der Augeu : gegen die Ge- 

 sichtslinie geueigt. Mageninhalt : Ueberreste von Friichteu. 



Kopflange 12 cm. 



Halslange 13 » 



Rumpflange 34 » 



Schwanzliinge 38 » 



Young. Farbe der Iris : lichtsepiabraun ; Farbe der Pu- 

 pille : wasserhell mit sehr lichtem , grünlichem Schimraer ; 

 Form der Pupille : rund ; Form der Augen : stark gewölbt. 



The tail of the adult female specimen is much longer 

 than that part in the two stuffed specimens in the Ley den 

 Museum, among which the type-specimen of Viverra Soiei, 

 and the broad transverse bands on the back are much 



Notes from tlie Leyden IMuseum, Vol. XX. 



