158 MCSTELIDJE. 



The martens are animals about the size of a domestic cat, more 

 or less arboreal in their habits, and with but little, if any, dis- 

 agreeable scent. 



Synopsis of Indian and Burmese Species. 



A. Tail without hair three fourths the length of 



the head and body M. flavigula, p. 158. 



B. Tail without hair one half the length of the 



head and body M.foina, p. 100. 



A trace of a fossil Mustela has been found in the Siwalik beds. 

 From tbe fragments found, the species appears to have been 

 similar to M.flavigula. 



77. Mustela flavigula. The Indian Marten. 



Mustela flavigula, Bodd. Elench. An. p. 88 (1785) ; Cantor, J. A. S. B, 



xv, p. 194. 

 Martes flavigula, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxvi, p. 310 ; id. P. Z. S. 1804, 



p. 485 ; id. Mam. Birds Burma, p. 29 ; Adams, P. Z. 8. 1858, 



p. 510 ; Jerdon, Mam. p. 82 ; Blanf. J. A. S. B. xlvii, pt. 2, 



p. 150. 



Galidictis chrysogaster, Jardine, Nat. Lib. xiii, p. 107, pi. vii (1842). 

 Martes gwatkinsi, Horsfield, Cat. p. 99 (1851). 



Kasia, Sirmur ; .Tuturala, Chitrdla, Kumaon and Garhwal ; Mul sam- 

 pra, Nepal ; Huniah, Bhot. ; Sakku, Lepcha ; Anga Prao, Malay. 



Fig. 39. Mustela flavigula. (From Hodgson's drawings.) 



Tail long and bushy, measuring, without hair, quite three 

 quarters the length of the head and body. Caudal vertebrae 24. 

 Feet more or less naked beneath ; in Malay specimens the whole 

 metacarpus and more than half the tarsus being bare, whilst in 

 some Himalayan animals the naked soles appear less developed. 

 Short hairs separate the pads from each other and from tbe central 



