/i"i, 



THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTOKY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. 93. SEPTEMBER 1915. 



XXI. — On some of the External Characters of the Palm- 

 Civet (Hemigalus derbyanus, Graif) and its Allies. By 

 R. I. PococK, F.R.S., Superiutendeut of the Zoological 

 Society^s Gardens. 



[Plate YIII.] 



The facts recorded in this paper are based upon an examina- 

 tion of specimens in the British Museum, more particularly 

 upon one of Hemigalus derbi/anus, a young male preserved 

 in alcohol and collected by C. Hose at Baram, N. Borneo ; 

 also upon a skin of that species obtained on Lawes Mt,, 

 N. Borneo, by A. Everett, and one of Diplogale hosei from 

 Mt. Dulit, collected by C. Hose, both of which were kindly 

 lent to me by iNlr. Edward Gerrard. 



Coloration. — The peculiar and, in some respects, curiously 

 variable pattern of Hemigalus is well known. On the head 

 there is a narrow median dark streak stretching from the 

 rhinarium to the fore part of the nape of the neck, and on 

 each side of this there is a broader dark stripe which encircles 

 the eye and passes backwards over the base of the earr. On 

 the upper side of the neck there are two very broad stripes, 

 sometimes more or less broken up into shorter stripes or spots, 

 which run backwards and curve downwards to the elbow. 

 Behind these and adjacent to the Avhorl, whence the hairs 

 radiate, are two shorter oblique stripes, also sometimes repre- 

 sented by spots. Behind the slioulders the back is marked 



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