Mammalia. ilS 



yellowish white or light yellow-brown ; flanks and outer sur- 

 faces of hinder extremities towards body, pencilled dull black 

 and yellowish white ; lower parts of neck, breast, belly, and 

 inner surfaces of extremities, yellowish white ; lower parts of 

 extremities black. Tail slender, thickest towards the root ; 

 for about two-thirds of its length, pencilled black-brown and 

 j>ale ferruginous ; last third, nearly an uniform black. Length 

 from nose to base of tail fifteen inches ; length of tail seven 

 inches and a half. 



Inhabits South Africa, — about Natal, — rare. 



Ichneumon urinator. Smith. (Black Ichneumon.) Figure 

 robust. Woolly hair grey-brown, and abundant ; bristly hair 

 black, freely pencilled with reddish white, and completely con- 

 ceals the other hair ; extremities, and last third of the tail, 

 nearly an uniform black ; sides of muzzle reddish brown, pen- 

 cilled with black ; whiskers, and bristles on the eyebrows and 

 chin black ; lower lip inclined to white, outer surfaces of ears 

 black ; inner surfaces brownish ; soles of feet bare ; claws dark 

 horn-coloured. Tail moderately thick at base and tapering to 

 the point. Length from nose to base of tail twenty-two inches ; 

 length of tail sixteen inches : height at shoulder eight inches, at 

 rump nine inches and a half. 



Inhabits South Africa, — common. 



Mangusta Urinatrix, Smith, ZoologicalJournal, vol.\\. p. 437. 

 Mangusta paludinosus, Cuv. Reg. Animal, Ed. ult. t. I. p. \58. 

 Zwarte Muishond of the Cape Colonists. 



Ichneumon albicaudis, Smith. (White-tailed Ichneumon.) 

 General colour white-grey freely variegated with black. Wool- 

 ly hairs soft and abundant ; white grey towards surface, black- 

 ish towards body. Bristly hairs long, and coarse, annulated 

 black and white towards roots, all black towards tips, particu- 

 larly on the middle of the back and anterior and outer surfaces 

 of hinder extremities towards body. Hair of head, of anterior 

 extremities, and lower parts of posterior extremities, short; 

 nose black, sides of muzzle reddish brown, pencilled with 

 black ; outer surfaces of ears brownish, pencilled with white ; 

 inner surface whitish ; anterior extremities black, pencilled to- 

 wards body with white, on their inner and posterior surfaces ; 

 lower portions of hinder extremities, black, with a whitish stripe 

 behind. Tail very bushy towards root, slender towards point. 

 The hairs of the first fourth of its length have the black annuli 

 predominating, in the middle portions the white is most abun- 

 dant, and the black is only seen through it ; towards the tip 

 they are entirely white. The greater part of the soles of the 

 feet, particularly of the hinder ones, covered with hair ; nails 

 black : muzzle slightly curved upwards. Length from nose to 



