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dusky at the base, and pale yellowish in the middle ; they are tipped 

 with black." 



In the nineteenth volume of the Asiatic Researches above cited, 

 Mr. Hodgson informs us (pp. 76, 77), that " the more peculiar habi- 

 tat of this species is the central region of Nepal, where it is very 

 common ; but it is also found in the northern, and occasionally in the 

 confines of the southern region. It never quits the untamed forest, and 



very seldom the mountainous country I kept an individual of 



this species for four years, and though I took no pains to tame it, 

 it exhibited many more signs of docility than I ever witnessed in the 

 P. hirsutus (the Bondar). The stomach, too, of one which I shot in the 

 forests of the central region, contained only seeds, leaves, grass, and 

 unhusked rice. The caged animal was fed on boiled rice and fruits, 

 which it preferred to animal food not of its own killing. When set at 

 liberty, it would lie waiting in the grass for sparrows and mynas, 

 springing upon them from the cover like a cat ; and when sparrows, as 

 frequently happened, ventured into its cage to steal the boiled rice, it 

 would feign sleep, retire into a corner, and dart on them with unerring 

 aim. Birds, thus taken by itself, it preferred to all other food. 



" This animal was very cleanly, nor did its body usually emit any 

 offensive odour, though, when it was irritated, it exhaled a most fetid 

 stench, caused by the discharge of a thin yellow fluid from four pores, 

 two of which are placed on either side the intestinal aperture." 



Mr. Hodgson then describes the apparatus in detail by which this 

 fetid fluid is produced. His details of the character of the fur, the 

 external covering, and the general colour of this species, agree gene- 

 rally with those given by Mr. Bennett in the Proceedings of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society above cited. 



The length of this species, according to Mr. Hodgson, from the 

 snout to the tip of the tail, is from forty- eight to fifty inches. The 

 dimensions of the specimen in the Company's Museum, are of the 

 body and head thirty inches, of the tail twenty inches. 



99. PA GUM A BONDAR, Dr. F. (Buchanan) Hamilton Sp. 



Ichneumon bondar, Dr. F. (Buchanan) Hamilton. Drawing, 

 Mus. Ind. Comp. 



Viverra bondar, De Blainville. Desmar., Mamm. p. 210. 

 Paradoxurus bondar, Gray, Proceed. ZooL Soc. 1832, p. 66. 

 Paradoxurus Pennantii, Gray, Proceed. Zool. 1832, p. 66. 

 Gray and Hardw., Illust. Ind. Zool. II. pi. 13. 



