326 MAMMALIA OF INDIA. 
DeEscriprion.—General colour olive brown with a golden hue, or 
finely speckled with golden yellow, due to the fine annulation of the 
hair; the sides of the body slightly paler, and not so yellow; under 
parts dirty yellowish-white ; limbs the same colour as the body; the 
under fur is purplish-brown in its lower two-thirds, and pale yellow in 
its terminal third; the long hair is smooth, fine, short, and adpressed ; 
the tips are dark brown, then yellow, then brown, twice repeated ; 
occasionally a yellow band at the base; in the tail there are generally 
eight bands, with the terminal dark brown ; the skull is remarkable for 
the narrow and elongated character of its facial portion ; the orbit is 
perfect in the adult. Length of skull about 1,5, inches; width at the 
zygoma, I}. 
S1zE.—Head and body, 12 to 13 inches; tail, g to ro inches. 
This and & fersicus are the smallest of the genus; it is included in 
Gray’s genus Calogale, and he gives the specific name followed by 
Jerdon, WVifalensis, which is geographically misleading. I have there- 
fore followed Dr. Anderson in retaining the more appropriate title. 
#7, persicus is closely allied, but the nasal portion of the palate is 
narrower. 
No. 240. HERPESTES FUSCUS. 
The Nilgherry Brown Mungoose ( Jerdon’s No. 132). 
Hapitat.—Madras Presidency, Neilgherries. 
DeEscrIPTION.—General colour, brown ; hair ringed black and yellow, 
tawny at the base ; throat dusky yellowish.—/erdon. 
S1ze.—Head and body, 18 inches ; tail, with hair, 17 inches. 
241. HERPESTES (ONYCHOGALE of Gray) MACCARTHIA. 
Hasirat.—Ceylon. 
DeESCRIPTION.—Reddish-brown ; elongate, flaccid, pale brown, with a 
broad thick sub-terminal band and a long whitish-brown tip ; fur of 
hands and face shorter; feet blackish brown; hair white-tipped; tail 
redder ; hair elongate, one coloured red ; ears rounded, hairy.— Gray. 
No. 242. HERPESTES FERRUGINEUS. 
Hasitat.—Sind. 
DESCRIPTION.—Resembles rufous specimens of 7. pallidus, but the 
skull shows differences in the greater breadth of the post-orbital 
contraction of the frontals, and a shorter, broader muzzle, more 
particularly with posterior or nasal part of the palate. 
The next species, which is included in Gray’s genus Zenzogadle, has the 
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