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by a yellow band, which is followed by a long blackish-brown 
band, extending nearly to the base, which is yellow. Length 
of head and body, 17 inches ; of tail, without hair, 10% inches, 
with hair, 1114 inches. 
Distribution. Borneo. 
XIX. THE CRAB-EATING MUNGOOSE. HERPESTES URVA. 
? Viverra fusca, Gray, Ilustr. Indian Zool. vol.i. pl. v. (1830). 
Gulo urva, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. v. p. 238 
(1836). 
Urva cancrivora, Hodgson, of. cit. vol. vi. p. 561 (1837). 
Mesobema cancrivora, Hodzson, op. cit. vol. x. p. 910 (1841). 
Osmetictis fusca, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. x. p. 260 (1842), 
flerpestes urva, Anderson, Anat. Zool. Research. Exped. Yun- 
nan, p. 189 (1878); Blanford, Mamm. Brit. India, p. r29 
(1888). 
Characters.—A white streak behind the ear; no black tail-tip ; 
hairs of back tipped with white; under-parts and limbs reddish- 
brown. 
Size large; form very robust; tail about two-thirds the 
length of the head and body; fur very long, coarse, and 
ragged; under-fur woolly; naked surface of under part of hind- 
foot extending about two-thirds the distance to the heel. 
General colour dusky iron-grey, or blackish with a superficial 
tinge of grey caused by the long whitish tips of the hairs; a 
distinct narrow white stripe along the side of the neck from 
the angle of the mouth to the shoulder ; head dark brown, 
speckled with white; limbs uniformiy dark brown, the feet 
frequently black. Under-fur dark brown at the base, then pale 
brownish-yellow ; the longer hairs brown at the roots, then light 
brown or yellowish-brown for a considerable distance, after this 
black, and the tips whitish. Length of head and body, from 
18 to 21 inches; of tail, without the hair, 11 to 12 inches, 
