E. V. Westmacott. 



A. Barclay, 

 W. Rutledge. 

 Barrackpore Park, 1868. 

 Maharajah of Burdwan, 



1858 ^ S.B. 

 Maharajah of Burdwan, 



1858, A. S.B. 

 Sir W. Elliot, 1847, A.S.B, 



B. H. Hodgson, 1836, A.S.B. 

 Agra Museum. 



Genus MELES. 



Meles, Storr Prodr. Method. Mavim. (1780)*. 



There are apparently several species of Badger in Central Asia ; 

 besides Hodgson's Tumpha (Meles leucura) there is Blyth's Meles 

 albogularis (J. A. S. B., xxii, p. 5Q0) ; Blanford"s unnamed species 

 from Kashgar. and Milne-Edward's Meles leptorhynchus (Recher- 

 ches Mammiferes, p. 190). 



M. leucura is said to have a very distinct skull, the lower part of 

 the hind-feet covered with hair, and it is also distinguished by its 

 fur, which is longer, thicker and more flaccid than that of M. 

 taxus. 



M. albogularis is apparently distinguished by its white throat 

 with a very narrow band of black only separating it from the white 

 cheek. 



M. leptorhynchus (M. chinensis of Gray) from China resembles 

 the European badger externally and differs from it only in certain 

 cranial characters. 



Finally, the unnamed species from Kashgar differs from M. 

 taxus only in that the median white mark in the middle of the 

 face does not extend back further than the ears. 



Meles taxus. 



Ursus meles, Linneeus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 70 ''1766'). 



Meles taxus. Boddaett Elench. Anini., i, p. 80 (1785)*; Blyth Cat. no. 2IO, 



p. 70; Middendorf Siberische Reise, ii, pt. 2, p. 3 ; Blasius Saugeth. 



Deutschl.,p. 204; Radde Osi Siberiens, i, p. 14; Schrenck Amurland 



Sauseth.y p. 17; Gray Cat. Cam. Mamm., p. 124; Severtzoff Ann. Mag. 



N. H. (4), xviii, p. 45 ; Alston P. Z. S., 1877, p. 274. 

 Taxus vulgaris, Tiedemann Zool., i, p. 376 (1808). 

 Meles europaeus, Desmarest N. Diet. Hist. Nat., iii, p. 465 (1816). 

 Meles vulgaris, Desmarest Mamm., p. 173 (1820). 

 Meles canescons, Blanford Persia, p. 44, pi, iii (1876) ; Alston P. Z, S,, 



J1877. p. 274. 



