APPENDIX B 



species, which, however, propagates in the west across Burmah and Assam as far 

 as Nepaul, where it has been recorded by Hodgson. 



LuTRA MoNTicuLA? {Hodgs.) ; I specimen. — The skull of this otter having been 

 lost, its species is not capable of strict definition. 



Canis Lupus, var. Pallipes {Syk.) ; 2 specimens. 



Paguma Larvat.\ {Tern.); 5 specimens. — The province of Yiinnan would seem to 

 mark the western limit of the habitat of this Paradoxura ; no writer has recorded 

 it in Burmah, while it is common all over the south of China from Eastern 

 Thibet to Formosa. 



VivERRA ZiEETHA, var. AsHTONi (Su'iiik.); 5 specimens. — In this variety the black 

 dorsal line, the black and white circles below the neck, and the large clearly 

 marked rings on the tail, merge with the rest of the hair in a slightly speckled 

 and almost regular grey tint. 



Felis Tigris (Z.) : i specimen. 



Felis Pardus (Z.j ; 5 specimens. — This panther belongs to the variety F. Fotitanieri 

 {A.-M. EduK). 



Felis Parous, var. M.^i.\s {Desm.) ; i specimen. — These three large members of the 

 feline tribe are also recorded by Anderson in Western Yiinnan. 



Felis Bengalensis, var. Pardochrous (Hodgs.) ; native name, Cku-ndzeu ; i speci- 

 men. — The Museum did not before possess any example of this beautiful variety 

 so clearly characterised by the shape of the spots on its coat. Anderson's 

 description applies exactly to the specimen in question : " The hair is of a bright 

 yellow colour mottled with numerous spots in shape like rosettes, and with small 

 black rings with centres of a tawny hue darker than the pale shade at the edge 

 of the rosettes. Of the four black stripes noticeable on the head the two outer 

 ones branch into two lines widening towards the shoulder-blades and enclosing a 

 space which is brown like the rosettes." 



Felis Moormensis {Hodgs.) ; i specimen. — As in the last case, this species had not 

 up till now been represented in our galleries. The specimen offered by Prince 

 Henry of Orleans is that of a young one only half-grown ;. its coat of uniform 

 russet brown shows on the forehead and cheeks the grey and white streaks edged 

 with black which are characteristic of the species. 



Felis Moor.mexsis, nir. Nigrescens {Hodgs.) ; i specimen. — Here the dark grey 

 coat has onh' preserved the shade of the form type in a large reddish-brown 

 patch between the shoulders, but the usual stripes on the face and the white 

 extremity under the tail are sufficient evidence of the specific identity of this and 

 the preceding. 



Besides this dark variety of the F. Moormensis, another with a definitely 

 spotted 1 coat has been recorded without even a sub-specific denomination by 

 Blyth in 1 863 ; but this latter may probably belong to the following species. 

 *Felis Tristis {A.-Af. Ediv.) ; i specimen. — Numerous skins of this spotted species 

 have been sent to us at various times from Setchuen by Prince Henry of Orleans 

 and the missionaries at Tatsien-lou, and an examination of them has admitted of 

 an exact description of their affinities. It is with the F. Moor.mensis that the 

 F. Tristis is most nearly allied, and not, as supposed by Elliott, with the F. 

 Marmorata {Mart.), of which the tail is incomparably longer and the face 

 markings very different. In this latter respect, on the contrary, there is complete 

 similarity between the F. Moormensis and the F. Tristis, and the tail of the 

 latter not only presents the same proportions and shape as that of F. Moormensis, 

 but also the same shade distribution at the extremity of black above and white 

 beneath. Further, in all the specimens of the F. Tristis that I have investigated 

 there was that reddish band between the shoulders which I remarked above in 

 the dark variety of the Felis Moormensis. 



' Blyth : a Xipalese specimen {F. Moormensis) in the India Museum is very distinctly and conspicu- 

 ously spotted {P.Z.S., 1863, p. 185). 



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