296 MR. C. BODEN KLOSS ON 



(lers and warm buff on the lower back and flanks ; median dorsal line 

 fVom niid-baclc to tail a variable bistre ; sides of neck between ears to 

 slioulilers apricot jreiiow; sides of upper lip, chin and throat white 

 ))len(ling with the yellow of the neck ; rest of the under-surface 

 chamois. Areas below ej'es and upper-side of forelimbs proximall}' 

 o-rizxled white and bistre ; ears bistre, their edges and centre whitish. 



External measurements : — head and bodj', '172 ; tail, 357 : 

 hind-feet, s. u.. 88 ; ear 35. 



Skull:— greatest length, 86 ; basal length, 79 ; upper tooth-row 

 excluding incisors (alveoli), 26.5 ; greatest diameter of ml, 8.0 ; least 

 palat-il breadth between carnassials, 14.6 : least interorbital breadth^ 

 ID; breadth at postorbital constriction, 22; zygomatic breadth 50.5. 



11. Arctonyx collaris dictator. 



ArrUini/.r KiUiiiis, Kloss, .Toiii'n. Straits. BraiK'li U. A. Soo., No. h'i 

 p. 32 (1909): Gainlner, .louni N. H. Soc. Siain, 1, p. 2.5:^Utl.'>). 



Airtuni/x il/cttiti>i\ Tliomas, Ann & Mag^ Nat. Hist. (8), V, p. 424 

 (lOlb); Kl(i?;s, antea p. 8. 



1 juv. near Sisophon, S. E. Siam. H. R. H. the Prince of Ohum- 

 l)orn. [NV 2465]. 



This Hog-badger, which seems to be the first specimen of an 

 Ardonyx taken east of the Menam, died in captivity and is unfortu- 

 nately very cage-worn and young. 



It is a little larger and older than a young aniu)al from 

 Nakon Sritamarat (antea p. 8) having Just got rid of all its milk teeth. 

 (freatest upper length of skull, 129; zygomatic breadth, 60.8 : greatest 

 diameter of v/i', 16.6, oi pm^, 19 mm. 



ArctoHijx dicfator still really rests on the type, an old female from 

 Trang, Peninsular Siam, much larger than any known examples of 

 rolUiris of Assam and Burma or hoevent of Sumatra : it does not seem 

 to be more th.an a large race of the former and that such should occur 

 between two smaller forms is ratlier unusual. Badgers are reported in 

 the .Malay Peninsula as far south as ri)per Perak where they are 

 known as " Sabima". 



12. Ursus tibetanus subsp. 



/■/.s».« thibctinins, V. Ciiv , Mist. Nat. ^lamni., pi. 2i:] (1824). 

 I'i:--iisu.< ti)riiinilii.<, liiaiifunl, l^yclekkor, Wronglitoii ct auet. 



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