272 Scientific Notices. 
During my residence in the hill provinces above mentioned, J have at 
different times shot four of them, and have had two alive, and the bodies 
and skins of perhaps a dozen, brought to me by peasants, (some males, some 
females,) besides seeing several others killed. The animal varies very 
much in colour. In all the upper half of the head, legs, rump, and tail, 
are very dark blackish brown, in some black. The chin and lower jaw are 
pure white ; but the throat is in some, bright yellow; inothers, of an orange 
tinge; in others again light tawny. The rest of the body is tawny with the 
tips of the hairs black; but in some the tawny darkens into brown, and 
even dark brown, while more of the ends than the very tips of the hairs 
are black, so as to make the animal appear almost all black. It would 
not seem to change with the season, for at the same time I have seen 
different specimens fully grown with the colours differing as above men- 
tioned. The enclosed sketch is copied from one made by myself in June, 
1827, from a specimen which I shot on that day. I have seldom, if ever, 
seen one with less black about it, but I have seen them of every shade 
between this and the one sent to the Zoological Society, which is now much 
darker than when first brought to me in September, 1828, when it was 
about four months old. It had been caught when not many days old, and 
was so tame, that it was always kept loose about a well, sporting about the 
windlasses, posts, &c., and playing tricks with the people who came to 
draw water. 
The length of the one from which the sketch is taken, from the tip of 
the nose to the setting on of the tail, was 203 inches. Length of tail 193 
inches. 
The native name of the animal in Gurhwall and Kumoun, is Tootu- 
tale; in Sirmoor, Koseah or Koosiar. 
[The sketch inclosed by Capt. Shoreto Mr. Vigors resembles very nearly 
the figure given in the Zoological Journal, Vol. iv. pl. viii, as the Mustela 
Hardwickii, which is synonymous with Must. flavigula, Bodd. The 
living specimen in the collection of the Zoological Society is so much 
darker, as to induce us to give a second representation of it in a Supple- 
mentary Plate, for the purpose of exhibiting the extremes o colour 
of a very rare and interesting animal.—Ed.] . 
