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ridge being the largest, and the others gradually lessening as you 

 descend the flanks and limbs, the latter of which, outside, are spotted 

 to the base of the digits ; tail, banded with sixteen or seventeen nearly 

 equal and perfect rings of alternate black and fulvous, the last ring 

 being vague with mixed hues, and dusky tip to the tail, and the dark 

 caudal rings upon the whole the larger ; mustachios, dark ; nude skin 

 of nose and pads of the feet of a fine fleshy pink hue. So far as can 

 be judged by the skins, the dimensions agree most closely with those 

 of Horsfield's type, or P. gracilis, being about sixteen inches long, and 

 thirteen to fourteen more for the tail, with a mean height of about six 

 inches. The animals are said to have the manners of cats, to spring 

 and climb with great power, to prey on small mammals and birds, and 

 to frequent trees much in search of the former, as well as for shelter. 

 The following specific character may serve to mark our animal : Prio- 

 nodon, with rich pardine hues, or rich orange buff spotted with black ; 

 the neck above, with irregular lines ; the body above and laterally, with 

 large entire round marks, eight in transverse and seven in longitudinal 

 series, diminishing in size from the dorsal ridge, and extending outside 

 the limbs to the digits ; below, entirely immaculate ; tail, with eight or 

 nine nearly equal and perfect rings of each of the hues of the body, or 

 black or ruddy yellow. Habitat, the Sub-Himalayan mountains ; not 

 known in the plains." 



B. NECROPH.EGA, Gray, Cat. Mamm. Br. 

 Mus. Syst. List, XX. 



c. Viverrina. 

 Genus VIVERRA, Pr. S. D. 



VIVERILE Species, Linn. 



87. VIVERRA ZIBETHA, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. XII., I. 

 p. 65 , ed. Gmel.j I. p. 89. Gray and Hardw., Illust. Ind. 

 Zool. II. t. 5. 



Viverra undulata, Gray, Spic. Zool. t. 8. 



Viverra melanura, orientalis, and civettoides, Hodgs., Mam- 

 malia of Nepal, J. A. S. Beng. X. p. 909, are cited by 

 Gray in the Catalogue of Hodgson's Collection in Br. 

 Mus. as varieties of V. zibetha. 



Zibet, Shaw, Gen. Zool. I. p. 398. 



KHATTAS, Sansk, Wilson's Dictionary. 



TANGGALONG, of the Malays, Marsden. 



