62 CATALOGUE. 



92. PARADOXURUS MUSANGA, Raffles 8p., Catal 

 Sumatran Mamm. 



Viverra musanga, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. p. 252. 



Horsfield, Zool. Research, with a figure. Desmar., 



Mamm. Suppl.p. 539. Appendix to Life of Sir T. S. 



Raffles, p. 635. 

 Paradoxurus musanga, Gray, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1832, 



p. 66. Temm., Monogr. II. p. 317, %c. Muller, 



Over de Zoogdieren van den Ind. Archip. pp. 54, 5. 



Cantor, Catal. of Malayan Mammalia, p. 31. 

 Musang, a species of Viverra, Marsden, Hist, of Sumatra, 



p. 118, #.12, n. 2. 



MUSANG, of the inhabitants of Sumatra, Marsden. 

 MUSANG BULAN, of the Malays, Raffles. 

 LUWAK, of the Eastern Javanese, Horsfield. 

 TJARO-KO-OS and TJARO-BULAN, of the Western Javanese, 



Muller. 



HAB. The Indian Archipelago. 



A. Adult, B. Young. Horsfield's Collection from Java. 



B. Presented by Sir T. S. Raffles. 



The Paradoxurus musanga has been observed by the Dutch naturalists 

 in Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and Timor, and by Dr. Cantor in Penang, 

 Singapore, and the Malayan Peninsula. Its great resemblance to the 

 last species in external habit, proportions of extremities and tail, has 

 already been mentioned, but in its markings and hairy covering it 

 exhibits greater varieties. M. Temminck enumerates and describes 

 nine varieties. In the adult individuals of the musanga, the body 

 above, and the anterior parts of the neck and breast are variegated 

 gray and black, inclining to tawny or isabella. The back is marked 

 with longitudinal black bands, varying from five to seven, which are 

 more distinct in young subjects ; the sides are obscurely spotted, and 

 the abdomen is paler ; legs and tail, black or deep brown ; ears, short 

 and rounded ; tail, somewhat longer than the body, gradually tapering 

 to the end, covered with coarse hair ; fur, composed of hair, somewhat 

 stiff and bristly, not closely applied to the skin ; head, blackish, with a 

 transverse gray mark on the forehead, and a white spot between the 

 eyes. 



In its manners, the Musang is less ferocious and sanguinary than 

 the Civets and Viverriculse. It generally sleeps during the day. 



