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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- 
sis) 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, 1614 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 (18809). 
Characters.—This Genet was provisionally identified by Gray 
with G. fe/ina, 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. 
Prionodontide, Horsfield, Zool. Researches, plate of Feds gra- 
cilis, as a “section” of Fe/is (1821); volume dated 1824. 
Linsang, S. Miiller, Verh. Nat. Gesch. p. 28 (1839). 
