52 MR. C. BODEN KLOSS ON 
Flat skin from north of Chiengmai [ No. 2674/CBK. ].  Collect- 
ed by Mr. H. C. St. J. Yates. 
The first specimen represents a dull coloured animal ; ground 
colour of upper parts greyish buff; the markings are large and dark 
and are indistinctly bordered by ochraceous tawny patches. Very 
different is the brilliantly coloured skin sent by Mr. Yates, in which 
the ground colour of the upper surface is ochraceous buff much suffused 
with bright tawny mesially where there are broken black stripes; the 
other markings mostly take the form of triangular tawny patches 
with, generally, a blackish apex or border. This specimen apparently 
resembles Blanford’s pardichroa Hodgs., from the Himalayas (Fauna 
Brit. Ind., Mamm., p. 80) which seems to have been based on a brig 
coloured example of this variable cat. 
Skull :—greatest length, 99 ; basal length, 82 ; greatest breadth, 
67; upper sectorial, 9.8 x 3.6 ; lower molar row (alveoli), 18.5 mm. 
do. Viverra zibetha pruinosa. 
Wroughton, Journ. Bombay N. H. S., XXIV, p. 64 (1915): Kloss, 
Journ, N. H. 8. Siam, II, p. 292 (1917). 
Adult skin and skull from a little south of Sriracha, on the 
Inner Gulf of Siam [No. 2675/CBK.]. Collected by Mr. A. J. Irwin, 
Mr. Wroughton distinctly states that there is in the ground 
colour of this race a total absence (which distinguishes it from other 
forms) of any yellow tinge; but the present specimen is decidedly suffused 
with buff on the lower parts of the flanks, thighs, head and sides of 
neck : to a less degree, an example from Patani, Peninsular Siam, is 
tinged with buff in the same way (Kloss, l. ¢.s). The type came from 
Thagata on the Little Tenasserim River, and the subspecies is said to 
extend north to the Shan States and south into the Malay Peninsula. 
This specimen comes from a locality so near the range indicated, that it 
would be unwise to separate it without more material and topotypes 
for comparison. It is not, as Mr. Wroughton states, in the tips of the 
hairs that the colour difference occurs, for they are blackish, but in the 
pale subterminal annulations. 
Mr. Irwin’s specimen is a fine adult with a broad, heavy skull 
and large teeth. Siamese name, Sua preng (maned tiger). 
Measurements of the skull:--greatest length, 140; basal length, 
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