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fed on boiled rice and fruits, which it preferred to animal food. When 
set at liberty it would lie waiting in the grass for mynas and sparrows, 
springing upon them from the cover like a cat, and when sparrows, as it 
frequently happened, ventured into its cage to steal the boiled rice, it 
would feign sleep, retire into a corner, and dart on them with unerring 
aim. It preferred birds, thus taken by itself, to all other food. 
“This animal was very cleanly, nor did its body usually emit any 
unpleasant odour, though when it was irritated it exhaled a most 
foetid stench, caused by the discharge of a thin yellow fluid from four 
pores, two of which are placed on each side of the intestinal aperture.” 
No. 230. PARADOXURUS BONDAR. 
The Terai Musang (Jerdon’s No. 125). 
NaTIvE Names.—Chinghar, Hindi; Bondar, Baum, Bengali; MJach- 
abba and Malwa in the Nepal Terai. 
Hapitat.—Nepal, North Behar and Terai. 
DeEscriPTION.—Clear yellow, tipped with black, the fur coarse and 
harsh; under fur soft and woolly ; legs blackish-brown outside ; body 
without marks, but the bridge of the nose, upper lip, whiskers, broad 
cheek-band, ears, chin, lower jaw, and the terminal third of the tail 
blackish-brown ; pale yellow round the eyes ; snout and feet flesh-grey ; 
nails sharp and curved. ‘The female smaller and paler. 
Size.—Head and hody, about 22 inches ; tail, 20 to 22; skull of one 
4} inches, less ventricose than that of P. Grayzz. 
This species is found, like P. musanga, in the vicinity of houses ; it 
lives in hollow trees, where it also breeds. Its habits are in great 
measure those of the common musang, though it is probably more 
carnivorous; it will, however, eat fruit. Jerdon says: “It sleeps 
rolled up like a ball, and when angered spits like a cat. It is 
naturally very ferocious and unruly, but capable of domestication, if 
taken young. It has a keen sense of smell, but less acute hearing and 
vision by day than the mungooses.” 
No. 231. PARADOXURUS TRIVIRGATUS. 
The Three-striped Musang. 
NaTivE NamMe.—<XAyoung-na-ga, in Arakan. 
HapiraT.—Tenasserim and the Malay countries ; also Assam. 
Description.—Fur blackish-brown, slightly silvered with pale tips ; 
three narrow black streaks down the back ; under parts dirty white ; 
head, feet, and tail black or blackish-brown. ‘This animal forms a 
separate genus of Gray, following Professor Peters’ Arcfogale, on account 
of the smallness of the teeth and the protraction of the palate. 
I had a specimen of this Paradoxurus given to me early in the cold 
