THE STRIPE-NECKED MUNGOOSE. 26% 
Distribution.—Java, Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Cambcdia, 
and Cochin China. 
XVI. THE SHORT-TAILED MUNGOOSE. HERPESTES 
BRACHYURUS. 
flerpestes brachyurus, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. i. p. 578 
(50 36)5 id. Cats Carniv. Mamm. Brit. Mus, py ea 
(1869); Anderson, Zool. Anat. Research. Exped. Yun- 
nan, p. 187 (1878). 
Characters.—Nearly allied to the last, but with a still shorter 
tail, which is less than half the length of the head and body. 
Length of head and body, from 1714 to 181% inches ; of tail, 
without hair, 7 to 9 inches. 
Distribution Borneo and Malay Peninsula. 
XVII, THE STRIPE-NECKED MUNGOOSE. HERPESTES 
VILTICOLLIS. 
ferpestes vitticollis, Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1835, p. 67; 
Blanford, Mamm. Brit. India, p. 128 (1888). 
Mungos vitticollis, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1835, p. 103. 
Mangusta vitticollis, Elliot, Madras Journ. vol. x. p. 103 
(1839). 
Tentogale vitticollis, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 569. 
Characters.—Its large size, the presence of a black streak on 
each side of the ear behind the neck, the black tail-tip, and 
the ruddy rump, serve at once to distinguish this species. 
Size large ; tail, inclusive of the long hair at the tip, three- 
quarters the length of the head and body ; fur long and harsh, 
longest on the tail; tarsus naked. General colour varying 
from a grizzled dusky iron-grey to a full ferruginous- or chest- 
nut-red, without speckling, the red being, however, frequently 
confined to the hinder part of the body and tail, and the head 
invariably iron-grey ; neck with a black streak running from 
behind the ear to the shoulder. bordered above and below by 
