PARADOXURUS. 217 
inches. 
This is a very common animal in India, frequently to be found in the 
neighbourhood of houses, attracted no doubt by poultry, rats, mice, &c. 
It abounds in the suburbs of Calcutta, taking up its abode sometimes in 
out-houses or in secluded parts of the main building. During the years 
1865-66 a pair inhabited a wooden staircase in the Lieutenant- 
Governor’s house at Alipore (Belvedere). We used to hear them 
daily, and once or twice I saw them in the dusk, but failed in all my 
attempts to trap them. That part of the building has since been 
altered, so I have no doubt the confiding pair have betaken themselves 
to other quarters. In a large banyan-tree in my brother’s garden at 
Alipore there is a family at the present time, the junior members of 
which have lately fallen victims to a greyhound, who is often on the 
look-out for them. As yet the old ones have had the wisdom to keep 
out of his way. 
They are very easily tamed. I had one for a time at Seonee which 
had been shot at and wounded, and I was astonished to find how soon 
it got accustomed to my surgical operations. Whilst under treatment 
I fed it on eggs. In confinement it is better to accustom it to live 
partly on vegetable food, rice, and milk, &c., with raw meat occasionally. 
Its habits are nocturnal. I cannot affirm from my own experience that 
it is partial to the juice of the palm tree, for foddy (or Zari) is unknown 
in the Central Provinces, and I have had no specimens alive since I 
have been in Bengal, but it has the character of being a toddy-drinker 
in those parts of India where the toddy-palms grow; and Kellaart 
confirms the report. It is arboreal in its habits, and climbs with great 
agility. 
No. 229. PaRaDOXURUS (PAGUMA of Gray) GRAYII. 
The fill Musang (Jerdon’s No. 124). 
Hasitat.—South-east Himalayas and Burmah, from Nepal to Arakan. 
DeEscriPTIoN.—‘‘ Colour above light unspotted fulvous brown, 
showing in certain lights a strong cinereous tinge, owing to the black 
tips of many of the hairs ; beneath lighter and more cinereous ; limbs 
ash-coloured, deeper in intensity towards the feet, which are black ; 
tail of the same colour as the body, the end dark, white-tipped; ears 
rounded, hairy, black ; face black, except the forehead ; a longitudinal 
streak down the middle of the nose, and a short oblique band under 
each of the eyes, which are gray or whitish.”—/erdon. 
S1zE.—Head and body, 30 inches; tail, 20 inches. According to 
Hodgson, this species keeps to the forests and mountains, feeding on 
small animals and birds, and also vegetable food. ‘‘ One shot had only 
seeds, leaves, and unhusked rice in its stomach. A caged animal was 
