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black tail-tip, on the under surface of which the last three light 

 rings are indistinctly visible. A variety from Angola (G. angolen- 

 si's) is described by Bocage as grey, grizzled with black and 

 white, and marked with large black spots and streaks ; limbs 

 totally black; tail short, inferior in length to the head and 

 body, black, with grey rings near the base. Length of head 

 and body, about 18 inches; of tail, i6}( inches. 



Distribution. — West Africa (Senegal, Fernando Po, Guinea, 

 Gaboon, the Cameruns, and Angola). 



VI. THE RUFOUS GENET. GENETTA RUBIGINOSA. 



Genetta rubiginosa, Pucheran, Rev. Mag. Zool. vol. vii. p. 154 

 (1855); Bocage, J. Sci. Lisboa, ser. 2, vol. i. p. 177 (1889). 



Characters. — This Genet was provisionally identified by Gray 

 with G. fellna, but black-tailed specimens obtained from Angola 

 by Bocage are regarded as indicating a distinct species, which 

 is probably the one described by Pucheran. These specimens 

 are described as follows :— Ground-colour of the fur greyish- 

 white with a tinge of rufous ; limbs of the same hue, and show- 

 ing scarcely any trace of dark markings; dorsal stripe and 

 streaks on the body bright rufous, with the exception of those 

 of the last row, which are blackish. The tail, which is of con- 

 siderable length, generally has four rufous rings near the root, 

 followed by four or five black rings, alternating with shorter 

 rings of reddish-white ; tip black, formed by the coalescence of 

 the last two or three dark rings. Length of head and body, 

 about 19 inches; of tail, nearly the same. 



Distribution. — West Africa (Angola). 



V. THE ORIENTAL LINSANGS. GENUS LINSANGA. 

 Prio?iodontid<z, Horsfield, Zool. Researches, plate of Felts gra- 

 cilis, as a "section " of Fells (18 21); volume dated 1824- 

 Zinsang, S. Miiller, Verh. Nat. Gesch. p. 28 (1839). 



