XXVIII. FURTHER NOTES ON THE MONGOOSES 

 OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



By C. Boden Kloss, F.Z.S. 



When 1 wrote the article on the Mongooses of the Mala) 

 Peninsula published in the last number of this Journal 

 (pp. 123-5; September, 1917), some skulls were missing which 

 have since been recovered and 1 am now able to give their 

 measurements. 



It will be seen that the skulls do not confirm the slight 

 difference in size in favour of Mimgos javanicus peninsulae over 

 Mungos incertus indicated by the collector's external measure- 

 ments taken in the flesh, but show that the two are of practi- 

 cally similar dimensions or that the difference, if any, is rather 

 the other way about. The only difference between the skulls 

 of the two species lies in the bullae, which in incoius are rather 

 larger and this feature, with the colour differences, constitutes 

 the distinction between the two. 



The skulls of these indigenous Malayan animals differ from 

 that of Mungos mungos in their greater length, that of mungos 

 being shorter both actually and relatively to its breadth and 

 having a shorter tooth row. 



Measurements of Mongooses in millimetres. 



Mungos j. peninsul 



