MUSTELA. 273 



Z?;>/ri(}«//o«.— Baluchistan and Southern Afghanistan, possibly 

 extending to Sind. 



[No specimen in the Museum.] 



Vulpes caama. 



Canis caama, A. Smith S. African Quart. Journ. (1833)*. 



Megalotis caama, H. Smith Jard. Nat. LiLr., ix, p. 236 (1839) ; Blyth Cat. 



no. 128, p. 41. 

 Vulpes caama, Gerrard Cat. Bones B. M., p. 87 (1862). 

 Fennecus caama, Gra}> P. Z. S., p. 520 (1868); id. Cat. Cam. Mamm., 



p. 207. 



Distribution.— South Africa. 



a. Stuffed South Africa E.L. Layard, 1859, A. S.B. 



Vulpes virginiana. 



Canis virginianus, Gmelin Syst. Nat., i, p. 74 (1788). 



Canis cinereo-argentatus, Schreber Sdugeth., iii, p. 360 r'. x-'i (77?). 



Vulpes virgineana, Dekay New York ZooL, p. 45 (1J1.42) ; Llytk tut no. 



136, p. 43- 

 Urocyon virgineanus, Gray P.Z. S., 1868, p. $22; id. Cai. Cum. Mamm., 



p. 209. 



Distribution. — North America, from New England to Costa Rica. 

 a. Stuffed. North America. E. Riippel, 1885, A. S.B. 



Genus MUSTELA. 



Mustek , Linnaus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 66 (1766). 

 Martes, Nilsson Skand. Faun., isted., i, p. 41 (1820)*. 



Key of the Indian Species. 



a . Blackish brown, with very thick under fur ; throat white ; tail 

 without hair, one half the length of the head and body. 



M. foina, p. 275. 



^z'^. Yellowish ; head, neck, rump and legs black; tail without 

 hair, three-fourths the length of the head and body. 



M. flavigula, p. 273. 

 Mustela flavigula. 



Mustela flavigula, Boddaert Elench. Anim., i, p 88 (1785)*; Cantor J. A. 



S. B., XV., p. 194; Thomas P. Z. S., 1886, p. 67 ; Blanford Mammals, p. 158. 

 Viverra quadricolor, Shaw Genl. Zool.,\, p. 429 (1800). 

 Mustela leucotis, Griffith An. King., ii, p. 297 (1827). 

 Mustela hardwickii, HorsfieldZool. Journ., iv, p. 238, pi. viii (1828) ; MiXllef 



Over de Zoogdieren in Tem. Verhandl., p. 30. 



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