CATALOGUE. 105 



Hermine et Roselet, Buff., N. Hist. VII. p. 240. 



HAB. Nepal, Himalaya, and Tibet, Hodgson. Afghanistan, 

 Griffith. 



A, Griffith's Collection in Afghanistan. 



Although the Ermine appears to be extensively distributed through 

 the districts mentioned above, a single specimen only, contributed by 

 Griffith's researches in Afghanistan, is contained in the Company's 

 Museum. In exterior it greatly resembles the animal as it occurs in 

 Northern Europe and Asia, although the colour of the fur is less clear 

 and brilliant, the specimen not being quite adult. The skull of our 

 specimen agrees in all particulars closely with the skulls from various 

 localities contained in the British Museum. 



Besides the species of Mustela here described, several others are 

 found in Northern India ; namely, Mustela canigula, Hodgson, described 

 in Vol. XI. p. 279, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., and Mustela sarmatica, 

 Pallas, SpiciL Zool. XIV. t. 4, f. 1, observed and collected in Candahar 

 by Capt. Thos. Hutton, who gives various interesting details of its 

 external appearance and habits in the fourteenth volume of the Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. pp. 346 to 352. 



Genus PUTORIUS, G. Cuv., Gray, Hodgson, et al. 

 MUSTEL^E Species, Linn, et al. 



125. PUTORIUS TIBETANUS, Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XV II I. p. I. p. 446. 



? Mustela Eversmanni, Lesson, Man. p. 144. Schinz, Syn. 



Mamm. I. p. 339. 



Mustela Putorius, Linn. Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 219. 

 Black-faced Polecat of Tibet, Hodgs. I. c. 



HAB. Ladakh, Captain Strachey. Utsang, near the northern 

 boundary of Nepal, Hodgson. 



A. Capt. Strachey's Collection in Ladakh. 



The specimen of this animal, described by Mr. Hodgson in the 

 eighteenth volume of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, was 

 obtained with other Tibetan quadrupeds at Utsang beyond the northern 

 boundary of Nepal : a second specimen was procured by Captain R. 

 Strachey in Ladakh, north of Kumaon. These both agree in external 

 character. Mr. Hodgson points out the near resemblance to the 

 European Polecat, of which he considers it to be the Tibetan analogue. 



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