: THE PHILIPPINE PALM-CIVET. 235 
: 
Distribution—The range of the typical form of this species 
embraces Burma, Siam, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, 
and Java; the variety P. s¢rictws is apparently confined to Sikhim 
and Assam; while the variety P. niger is spread over India 
proper and Ceylon, extending to the Himalaya, but becoming 
rarer in the north-west, and also to the east in Lower Bengal, 
where it passes almost insensibly into the typical form. 
Habits—The habits of the Common Palm-Civet, cr, as it is 
often called, Toddy-Cat, may be taken as typical of those of 
the genus generally. These animals pass the daytime either 
among the b:anches of trees or in hollows of their trunks, in 
the neighbourhood of the coast cocoa-nut palms being their 
favourite resorts, while in more inland districts mangrove-groves 
are frequently selected. ‘Thatched roofs of houses, as well as 
outbuildings and drains, are, however, sometimes chosen as 
_ dwelling-places, and these animals will occasionally take up 
their quarters in the heart of cities. From such varied domi- 
ciles the Palm-Civet issues forth at dusk in search of food, which 
comprises the smaller Mammals, birds and their eggs, lizards, 
insects, fruit, and vegetables, in addition to “‘toddy”—that is to 
say, palm-juice—which is eagerly drunk from the vessels sus- 
pended from palm-trees to collect it. The young are born in 
the hollows of trees, and usually number four to five in a litter. 
ll. THE PHILIPPINE PALM-CIVET. PARADOXURUS 
PHILIPPINENSIS. 
Paradoxurus philippinensis, Jourdan, Comptes Rendus, vol. v. 
H p. 523 (1837) ; Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 800. 
| Paradoxurus zeylanicus, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 55 
: (1843). 
Paradoxurus philippensis, ¥. Cuvier, Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 2, vol. 
viii. p. 372 (1837). 
- Characters.—Very similar to the preceding, but rather smaller, 
~ with the fur closer, softer, less ragged, and more even in length, 
an 
