THE STRIPE-NECKED MUNGOOSE. 26 J 



Distribution. — Java, Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Cambodia, 

 and Cochin China. 



XVI. THE SHORT-TAILED MUNGOOSE. HERrESTES 

 BRACHYURUS. 



Herpestes brachyurus, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. i. p. 578 

 (1836); id., Cat. Carniv. Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 154 

 (1869); Anderson, Zool. Anat. Research. Exped. Yun- 

 nan, p. 187 (1878). 

 Characters. — Nearly allied to the last, but with a still shorter 

 tail, which is less than half the length of the head and body. 

 Length of head and body, from 17^ to 18^ inches ; of tail, 

 without hair, 7 to 9 inches. 



Distribution. — Borneo and Malay Peninsula. 



XVII. THE STRIPE-NECKED MUNGOOSE. HERPESTES 

 VITTICOLLIS. 



Herpestes vitticollis^ Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1835, p. 67; 



Blanford, Mamm. Brit. India, p. 128 (1888). 

 Mungos vitticollis, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1835, p. 103. 

 Mafigusta vitticollis, Elliot, Madras Journ. vol. x. p. 103 



(1839)- 



Tceniogale vitticollis, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 569. 



Characters. — Its large size, the presence of a black streak on 

 each side of the ear behind the neck, the black tail-tip, and 

 the ruddy rump, serve at once to distinguish this species. 



Size large ; tail, inclusive of the long hair at the tip, three- 

 quarters the length of the head and body ; fur long and harsh, 

 longest on the tail; tarsus naked. General colour varying 

 from a grizzled dusky iron-grey to a full ferruginous- or chest- 

 nut-red, without speckling, the red being, however, frequently 

 confined to the hinder part of the body and tail, and the head 

 invariably iron-grey ; neck with a black streak running from 

 behind the ear to the shoulder, bordered above and below by 



