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H. fidvescens of Ceylon, -with whicli I liacl compared it, belongs to another 



group, Onyclwgale, distinguished by its long curved claws, and stands 



now as 0. Maccarthice, Gray. 



Calogale has the tail long, slender, and cylindric, with short hair, 



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long only at the tip, and the false molars '^ — ^. To this belong 



Nos. 128 and 131, H. malaccensis and nipalensis. Gray places the 

 former of these as Calogale nyula, making it distinct from the Malacca 

 Mungoos ; but he states that there is no specimen from Malayana in the 

 British Museum ; so the distinction of the species is still doubtful, I 

 think. These two forms, viz. Herpestes and Calogale, have the flesh- 

 tooth long and narrow, The next two forms have the flesh-tooth broad 

 and triangular. 



Calictis has the false molars as in Herpestes, viz. -, and the tail 



thick and tapering. To this belongs No. 130, Calictis Smithii, which 

 I see is figured in the Illustrated Proceedings of the Zool. Society for 

 1851, pi. 31. 



T^niogale is described as having the whiskers small and slender ; the 

 Boles of the hind feet bald ; the orbit complete ; and 42 teeth. To this 

 belongs No. 133, T^eniogale vitticollis apud Gray. Should not 

 TiENiOGALE give place to Mungos, previously proposed for this species % 



With reference to H. thysanurus, Wagner, from Kashmir, I may state 

 that I have recently again procured a mongoos from the valley of Kash- 

 mir, which is decidedly //. nipalensis. 



Page 141. A black wolf is occasionally seen in Tibet by sportsmen, 

 and it is considered by the natives to be a distinct species. Two young 

 ones, male and female, were brought from Tibet last year by Messrs. 

 Kinloch, Kifle Brigade, and Biddulph, 19th Hussars, and are now on 

 their way home to the Zoological Gardens. They are called Hahpo 

 clianko by the Tibetans, i. e. the Black Wolf. 



Page 185, No. 171. Gerbilltjs erytheourus. I forwarded a skin 

 of this rat to Dr. Gray, British Museum, and he writes me that it is most 

 undoubtedly his G. erythrourus, and that the skin I forwarded was the 

 fac-simile of the type specimen in the British Museum. 



Page 199, No. 180. M. rufesceits. — This rat is also M. decum a 

 noldes, T., apud Horsfield. 



Page 314, No. 241. Manis pentadactyla. — This species is classed by- 

 Pr. Gray, in a late synopsis of the family, as Pholidotus indicus, Gray. 



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