220 MAMMALIA OF INDIA. 
reddish-brown on back and sides ; thighs, legs, throat, and belly lighter ; 
tail long, deep chestnut brown ; nose with a central white line; ears 
yellowish. 
No. 233. PARADOXURUS ZEYLANICUS. 
The Golden Musang. 
NativE NaMre.—Coolla-weddah, Singhalese. 
Hapsitat.—Ceylon. 
DescriPtion.—A golden-brown colour arising from the longer hairs 
having a bright golden tint; the shorter hairs brown, paler beneath ; 
head and legs dark brown; muzzle and lips blackish; whiskers white 
or yellowish ; ears small, dark brown externally, almost naked internally ; 
tail sub-cylindrical, long; sometimes with a single pale sub-terminal 
band ; tip rounded, paler than the body. According to Kellaart, three 
inconspicuous brown dorsal streaks diverging and terminating on the 
crupper, and some very indistinct spots seen only in some lights. Gray 
says these animals differ in the intensity of the colour of the fur—some 
are bright golden and others much more brown. The latter is P. fuscus 
of Kellaart. 
S1zeE.—Head and body, 19 inches ; tail, 15 to 16 inches. 
Kellaart writes of this species: ‘‘ The golden paradoxure appears to 
be a more frugivorous animal than the palm-cat (Paradoxurus typus*). 
Their habits are alike nocturnal and arboreal. In all the individuals 
of the former species examined at Newera-Ellia the stomach contained 
Cape gooseberries (Physalis Peruvianat), which grow there now in 
great abundance ; and only one had the remains of animal matter in 
the stomach. When young they are tolerably decile, but as they 
grow up their natural ferocity returns.” This seems strange, as they 
appear to be less carnivorous than the others. 
No. 234. PARADOXURUS (PAGUMA) LANIGER. 
Hasirat.—Thibet. 
This requires further investigation. Gray says: ‘ This species is 
only known from a skin without any skull, and in a very bad state.” 
P. strictus, gquadriscriptus and prehensilis are three species alluded to 
by Gray as requiring further examination, but probably Jerdon is right 
in considering them as varieties of P. musanga. 
A specimen with very large canines has been reported from the 
Andaman Islands (P. Zj/eri ?) in addition to these. Gray enumerates 
as an Indian species P. wigrifrons, which is likely to be a variety of 
* Cuvier’s name for P. musanga.—R. A. S. 
t The Zpari of Bengal.—R. A. S. 
