134 MamMa.ia OF INDIA. 
animal is almost identical with the English badger, only that his tail is 
longer and whiter. 
No. 173. MELES ALBOGULARIS. 
The White-throated Thibetan Badger. 
Hapitat.—Thibet. 
DESCRIPTION.—Smaller and much less tufted ears than the last species ; 
a shorter and much less bushy tail; and the fur shorter and coarser, 
though of finer texture than in the European badger, with much woolly 
hairat its base. Both the English badger and JZ. deucurus are black 
throated ; this one is white throated. The English animal has a broad 
band of brownish-black, which begins between the muzzle and the eye, 
and runs through the eye and ear tillit fades off on the neck; the space 
of white between these two bands on the forehead runs back and 
contracts behind the ears. In the Thibetan animal it contracts just 
behind the eyes, and is continued as a faint narrow streak only as far as 
the ears. In the English one the cheeks are broadly white between the 
eye-band and the black throat; in the Thibetan there is a little white 
below the eye, and this is bordered by a narrow black stripe, beneath 
which is the white throat. 
There is another Thibetan badger mentioned by Professor Milne- 
Edwards in his ‘ Recherches sur les Mammiftres,’ a white-throated one, 
M. obscnrus, but it appears to be the same as AZ. albogularis. 
GENUS MELLIVORA. 
Tubercular grinder transverse ; flesh-tooth larger, with a small inter- 
nal lobe, and with a single tubercle; lower flesh-tooth tricuspidate, 
sharp-edged ; head depressed ; nose blunt; ears not visible externally ; 
body stout, depressed ; legs short, and strong ; feet plantigrade, five-toed ; 
front claws elongated and strong; the bald sole of the hind foot 
occupying the whole under surface, only slightly divided across about 
one-third of its length from the front; tail very short, with powerfully 
offensive glands ; it has a thick loose skin and a subcutaneous layer of 
fat, which doubtless protect it from stings of bees, on which this genus 
is supposed to feed whenever it can. 
No. 174. MELLIVoORA INDICA. 
The Indian Rate or Honey-Badger ( Jerdon’s No. 94). 
NaTIVE NaME.— yu, Hind.; Biyu-khawar, Telegu; Zavakaradi, 
Tamil; Bayru-bhal, at Bhagulpore (Santali?) ; Bharsiah, Nepalese. 
Hapirat.—Throughout India. 
