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Blanford observes that in the present species the pale ground- 
colour prevails much more than in the next; the upper-parts 
of the former being marked by irregularly-shaped blackish spots 
on a pale ground, whereas the upper surface of the latter is 
dark, with afew white streaks dividing the colour into patches. 
On the tail of Z. gracif’s the dark rings, especially towards the 
tip, are shorter than the white ones, and there is a long white 
tip, whereas in the next species the dark rings are nearly 
double the length of the white ones, and the white tip is shorter. 
Length of head and body, about 1514 inches; of tail, 12% 
inches. 
Distribution.— Java, Borneo, and perhaps Sumatra. 
Nothing has been recorded of the habits of this species. 
II. THE BURMESE LINSANG. LINSANGA MACULOSA. 
Prionodon maculosus, Blanford, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 
xvii. p. 152 (1878) ; id, Mamm. Brit. India, p. 104 (1888). 
Linsang maculosus, Thomas, Ann. Mus. Genova, ser. 2, vol. x. 
p. 9 (1892). 
Characters.—Size large ; upper-parts covered with large black 
patches; tail rather shorter than the head and body. Ground- 
colour of fur grey, marked with about six broad irregular trans- 
verse brownish-black bands across the back ; the light spaces 
being thus reduced to narrow stripes. On the sides of the 
body the dark bands broken up into interrupted longitudinal 
stripes, one of which passes across the shoulder to the side of 
the neck, and is continued as a line of spots to the eye. On the 
upper part of the sides of the neck a broader black stripe passes 
from a short distance behind the ear across the shoulder, where 
it merges into the transverse bands. A few spots between the 
upper stripes on the neck, and likewise on the fore-neck and 
outer surfaces of the limbs ; but the under-parts and feet uni- 
formly pale-coloured. ‘Tail with seven complete black rings, 
