PALM-CIVETS. 



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running down the head and nose. It is rather smaller than the Himalayan palm- 

 civet, although its exact dimensions are still unknown. In Southern China this 

 palm-civet is found in Hangchow, and the provinces of Kwangtung and Fokien ; 

 and it likewise inhabits the Island of Formosa. 







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The SiLiLL-TooTHED Palm-Civets. 



Genus Arctogale. 



The two species of small-toothed palm-civets are distinguished (as their name 

 implies), among other characters, from the members of the preceding genus by their 

 relatively smaller cheek-teeth, and have hence been referred to a distinct genus, 

 under the name of Arctogale. Extei"nally these civets may be readily distinguished 

 from the typical palm-civets by the soles of their feet being still more extensively 

 naked, and likewise by the greater degree of divergence of the first toe of both 

 pairs of feet from the other digits. The white-eared small-toothed palm-civet 

 (A. leucotis) is an inhabitant of Assam, Burma, Tenasserim, the Malay Peninsula, 

 Sumatra, and Java : while the second species {A. trivirgata) is restricted to the 

 island last mentioned. The former is a short- furred animal, of a fulvous or dusky- 

 grey colour, sometimes nearly brown on the back, and always paler below, wdth 

 a tail about as long as the head and body. It is readily distinguished by the 

 presence of three dark bands, which may be either continuous, or broken up into 

 spots, running down the back of the otherwise unifomily-coloured body. In a 

 male specimen the total length of the head and body was 26| inches, and that of the 



