100 CATALOGUE. 



HAB. Peninsula of India, Elliot. Mussoorie, in the Hima- 

 layas, Reynolds GwatMns, Esq. 



A. Presented by Colonel Sykes. 



This is as yet a rare species, and two specimens only appear to be 

 recorded in collections ; one of these has been sent from Madras by 

 Walter Elliot, Esq., to Colonel Sykes, who presented it to the Museum 

 of the East-India Company ; the other is described by the editor of the 

 Naturalist's Library (Mammalia, vol. I.), from a specimen obtained at 

 Mussorie, in the Himalayas, by Reynolds Gwatkins, Esq. In this work it 

 is classed in the genus Galidictis of J. Geoffr., the type of which is 

 Viverra fasciata (Gmelin, Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 92), the Chat sauvage a 

 bandes noires, Sonnerat, II. 2, p. 193. I have not adopted this determin- 

 ation, from the following reasons : Our specimen agrees in all points so 

 closely with the Martes Flavigula, described in the last article, that at 

 first sight it appears to the observer to be a mere variety of that 

 species ; the general contour of the body, the distribution of colours, 

 the form of the head, and proportion of the tail, are the same ; the 

 dimension also agrees with that species, and the markings of the throat 

 and breast are similar. 



In both species the body is long and slender, being more robust and 

 elevated at the rump, gradually tapering towards the shoulders ; the 

 neck slender ; head conical, of moderate length, somewhat compressed 

 above, abruptly terminated. The external markings, respectively, are 

 the following : 



In the Martes flavigula the head, nose, and upper lip, the sides of 

 the face, including the ears, the back of the neck, the hair and adjacent 

 parts of the body and limbs, both within and without, are of a deep 

 shining black ; the chin and lower jaw are white ; the throat and breast 

 yellow ; the depth of the tints varying in different individuals ; the 

 body is brownish, or of a sandy testaceous colour, varying in certain 

 dispositions to the light. 



In the Martes Gwatkinsii the general colour throughout is black ; 

 the depth of the colour, however, varies in different parts, being more 

 intense on the head and extremities. On the body and abdomen a shade 

 of deep chestnut-brown is perceptible, and some of the hairs being of a 

 greyish tint, these parts are slightly variegated in a certain aspect. 

 The chin and lower jaw are pure white ; the throat, breast, and anterior 

 part of the abdomen are yellow, inclining to orange. On each side of 

 the chin, between the gape and the ears, is a round black spot, nearly 

 half an inch in diameter. In the figure contained in the Naturalist's 



