1917-] C. B. Kloss: Mongooses of Malay Peninsula. 125 



Colour : — Pelage a grizzle of blackish and buff, base of 

 hair dark brown on back, blackish on abdomen. Top of 

 muzzle blackish ; top of face and head dark rufous, finely 

 grizzled; lower cheeks ferruginous; median line of back 

 faintly tinged with rufous; fore and hind feet darker and 

 more finely annulated than the body; chin yellowish rusty: 

 undersides of body and limbs less speckled than the back. 



Skull and teeth : — Do not differ from M. birmanicus or 

 siamensis. 



Measurements: — Head and bod)', 316 (328) 1 ; tail 236 

 (253); hindfoot, 58 (54); ear, 24 (24). Skull: greatest length, 

 69.5; condylo-basal length, 67.3; palate length 36.0 (32.2); 

 upper molar row c-m- (alveoli) 24.5 (24.8) ; /»» 4 , length 6.8 

 6.9), greatest diameter, 7.2 (.7.5); rostral breadth above 

 canines, 12.3 (11.7) ; zygomatic breadth, 33.7 (31.5) mm. 



Remarks: — The small size of this species immediately 

 distinguishes it from M. j. peninsulae though its colour is 

 almost exactly similar; the dark rufous head separates it 

 from birmanicus and its darker colour in general from siamensis. 



MUNGOS INCERTUS, Sp. 110V. 



Type: — Male skin collected at Ongut, Trang, Siamese 

 Malaya on 3rd February, igio. 



Diagnosis: — Intermediate in size between M. peninsulae 

 and M. perakensis : pelage longer than in either ; head brighter; 

 colour generally rather more rufous, pale annulations coarser; 

 underside of body dull ochraceous, very slightly speckled ; 

 base of tail rather ochraceous below. 



Measurements: — Head and body, 350 (361)-; tail, 276 

 (265) ; hindfoot, 63 (62) ; ear, 20 (22) mm. 



Remarks: — I do not know of any species of which this 

 animal is the Malayan representative; it appears to be too 

 large for M. birmanicus, etc. Probably belonging to it are 

 two old mounted specimens in the Museums from Perak 

 which I have recorded as Herpesfes auropunctatus birmanicm 

 (Journ. Straits Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. No. 53 p. 28, 1909) 

 but it is impossible to say with certainty as they have suffered 

 from exposure and no measurements have been recorded. 



1 Measurements in parentheses those of a young adult female from the 

 same locality (No. 116/14). 



isurements in parentheses those oi a female from near Taiping, 

 Perak (No • 



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