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Hodgson, Esq., in the fifth volume of the Journal of the Asiatic Society 

 of Bengal for the year 1836, although specimens were brought to 

 England by General Thomas Hardwicke about the year 1824. In the 

 sixth volume of the J. A. S. B. Mr. Hodgson gives, in 1837, the 

 following brief generic character. " Teeth, as in the genus Herpestes. 

 Structure and aspect mediate between Herpestes and Gulo, subvermi- 

 form and digitoplantigrade. Snout, elongated, sharpened, and mobile. 

 Hands and feet, largish ; with digits connected by large crescented 



membranes. Sole and palm, nude On either side of the root of 



the tail a round, hollow, smooth-lined gland, secreting an aqueous, 

 foetid humour, which the animal squirts out posteally with force." 

 Vol. VI. p. 561. 



The specimens in the Company's Museum vary considerably in the 

 character of the hairy covering. The general colour is jackal, or fulvous 

 iron gray : the fur is of two sorts, the interior, next the skin, woolly ; 

 the exterior long, straggling, and laxly set on; in some individuals 

 triannulated, fulvous, black, and white, constituting a variegated coat, 

 spotted white, black, and fulvous ; in others, a tawny tint predominates, 

 and the coat is more uniform ; again, others are dark rusty brown, with 

 a mixture of gray hairs. The limbs are in all individuals blackish 

 brown, with different shades of intensity. The abdomen brown. A 

 white stripe extends on either side of the neck, from the ear to the 

 shoulder, varying in brightness of tint in different individuals. Termi- 

 nal half of the tail rufous or rufous yellow. 



In a fifth imperfect specimen, a rufous tint predominates, and the 

 entire tail is reddish. 



In a natural arrangement, this genus follows Herpestes. 



The habits Mr. Hodgson describes as carnivorous and ranivorous : 

 dwelling in burrows in the valleys of the lower and central hilly regions 

 of Nepal. 



Genus ARCTICTIS, Temminck, Monogr. I. Table Methodique, 

 XXI. 1820. 



ICTIDES, Valanciennes. 1825. 

 PARADOXURL, Spec., Fr. Cuv. et al. 

 VIVERR^E, Spec., Raffles, 



115. ARCTICTIS BINTURONG, Fischer, Synops. Mamm. 

 p. 157. 



Arctictis binturong, Temm., Monogr. II. p. 308, with a 

 figure of the skeleton and skull. Cantor, Catal. of 

 Malayan Mamm. p. 22. Gray, Catal. of Mamm. Br. 



