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Animalium" with the name of Mustela flavigula, probably adapted from 

 Pennant's description : for this name Shaw substituted that of Mustela 

 quadricolor, General Zoology, I. p. 2, p. 429. From this period the 

 animal was passed over or considered as doubtful by zoologists until the 

 year 1824, when Maj.-Gen. T. Hardwicke brought to England a 

 skin which he presented to the Museum of the East-India Company. 

 This was described in the fourth volume of the Zoological Journal by 

 Horsfield, who, overlooking Pennant's original description, named it 

 Mustela Hardwickii. Within late years the animal has been frequently 

 brought to Europe, both living and dried. 



A living specimen, presented by the Hon. Captain Shore to the Zoo- 

 logical Society, is described by E. J. Bennett, Esq., in the " Gardens 

 and Menagerie" of the Society. Mr. B. gives a satisfactory account 

 of the general history and external colouring, with the following remarks 

 on its habits. " Our specimen," he states, " is extremely tame, good- 

 tempered, playful, and familiar. It partakes in a slight degree of the 

 unpleasant odour remarkable in some other animals of the family, and 

 of which the Polecat affords the most notorious example." (Gard. and 

 Menag. p. 228.) 



The Hon. Capt. Shore informs us that this animal is found in 

 Kumaon, Gurhwall, and part of Sirmoor. " It chiefly frequents the 

 warm valleys, but is also found on the higher ridges, where the climate 

 is perhaps as warm as the middle of France. It lives in holes, or in 

 trees, in climbing which it is excessively active. Its food is chiefly 

 birds, rats, mice, hares, and even young fawns of the Kakur or Barking- 

 deer. The specimen sent to the Zoological Society was brought to me 

 in September, 1828, when it was about four months old. It had been 

 caught when not many days old, and was so tame, that it was always 

 kept loose about a well, sporting about the windlasses, posts, &c., and 

 playing tricks with the people who came to draw water." General 

 Hardwicke obtained his specimen from Nepal, and Capt. R. Strachey 

 observed it in Kumaon at an elevation of 7,000 feet. 



Dr. S. Miiller notices as a remarkable fact, that in Sumatra, this 

 animal inhabits low, marshy wilds, while in Java it is only very rarely 

 met with on the tops of the highest mountains. 



117. MARTES GWATKINSII, Jardine, Sp., Nat. Libr. 

 I. p. 167. 



Galidictis chrysogaster, Jard., Nat. Libr. 



Gvvatkins' galidictis, Jardine, Naturalist's Library, I. p. 167 . 



