224 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
alternating with much shoffer light ones. Length of head 
and body, about 19 inches ; of tail (exclusive of hair at the tip), 
16 inches. 
Distribution. Tenasserim Provinces of Burma. This exceed- 
ingly handsome species is only known by two examples, one 
trapped in Southern Tenasserim, and a second taken near 
Moulmein. 
III. THE NIPALESE LINSANG. LINSANGA PARDICOLOR. 
Prionodon pardicolor, Hodgson, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. vol. 
ii. p. 57 (1842); Blanford, Mamm. Brit. India, p. 103 
(1888). 
Linsang pardicolor, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 49 (1843); 
id., Cat. Carniv. Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 53 (1869). 
Viverra pardicolor, Schinz, Synops. Mamm. vol. i. p. 366 
(1844). : 
Characters—Smaller than the last, from which it is distin- 
guished by the back being marked by broad dark transverse 
bands broken up into squared spots forming longitudinal rows ; 
tail as long as the neck and body. Ground-colour of fur very 
pale brown, with large angulated black spots; under-parts and 
feet uniform ; head also uniform brown, frequently with a black 
spot behind each ear. Neck marked on each side with a pair 
of longitudinal stripes; the middle pair continued as rows of 
large rounded spots down the back, separated by a line of 
smaller irregular spots ; about three rows of squared or rounded 
spots along the sides of the body, which are also arranged in 
from six to seven transverse bands. Outer surfaces of upper 
portion of limbs spotted ; tail with from eight to ten complete 
dark rings, separated by intervening light spaces of approxi- 
mately the same width. Length of head and body, from 14 to 
15 inches; of tail, 12 to 13 inches, 
Distribution.—South-eastern Himalaya, extending thence east- 
