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rieties have been described. Colonel Sykes informs us that there are 

 two varieties in Dukhun, one inhabiting the woods along the Ghauts, 

 the other the country eastward of the Ghauts. The Viverra malac- 

 censis of Gmelin, which is considered by some zoologists as identical 

 with the V. indica, rests on a drawing and description of M. Sonnerat, 

 and requires the examination and comparison of authentic specimens 

 from Malacca. In its habits, the Viverra indica resembles the V. 

 tanggalunga, although it admits of partial domestication. 



Mr. Hodgson informs us that these animals dwell in forests or de- 

 tached woods and copses, whence they wander freely into the open 

 country, by day (occasionally at least) as well as by night. They are 

 solitary and single wanderers, even the pair being seldom together, 

 and they feed promiscuously upon small mammals, birds, eggs, snakes, 

 frogs, insects, besides some fruits and roots. In the Tarai, the larger 

 Viverrse are found in uncultivated copses, and they are said further to 

 protect themselves by burrowing, at least they are frequently taken in 

 holes, whether made by themselves, or obtained by ejection of other 

 animals. The Mushars, a low caste of woodmen, eat their flesh. The 

 Tarai name of the larger animals is Bhraun, the hill name, Nit Biraloo. 

 (Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. II. p. 55.) 



90. VIVERRICULA RASSE, Horsfield Sp. 



Viverra rasse, Horsf., Zool. Research., with a figure. Pro- 

 ceed. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 23. Appendix to Life of Sir 

 T. S. Raffles, p. 635. Bennett, Tower Menagerie, 

 p. 103. Schinz, Synops. Mamm. p. 362. Muller, 

 Over de Zoogd. van den Ind. Archip. p. 30. 

 Viverricula rasse, Hodgs., J. A. S. B. X. p. 909. Clas- 

 sified Cat. of Mamm. 

 Viverra malaccensis, Gray, Cat. Mamm. Br. Mus. p. 48. 



Cat. Hodgs. Coll. p. 8. 

 Viverra indica, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 171. 

 Viverricula malaccensis, Cantor, Cat. Mamm. of Malayan 



Peninsula, p. 29. 



RASSE, of the Javanese, from the Sanskrit Rasa. 

 HAB. According to Dr. Muller, the island of Java exclusively. 



A. Horsfield's Collection from Java. 



The Rasse is considered by many zoologists as a variety of the 

 Viverricula indica. In the " Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 

 1832," pp. 22 and 23, I have endeavoured to demonstrate the essential 

 peculiarities which belong to the Rasse, and by which it is clearly dis- 



