120 CATALOGUE. 



each other in the colour of their pelage, they have each a peculiar 

 characteristic tint, which enables a careful observer to identify the 

 individual species. 



Genus MELLIVORA, Storr, Prodr. Meth. An. 1780. Fred. 

 Cuv., Gray, et al. 



URSI Species, Blumenb., Hardw., et al. 



VIVERRJS Species, Linn, et al. 



GULONIS Species, Desmar. 



RATELUS, Bennett, Gard. and Menag. Zool. Soc. 



URSITAXUS, Hodgson, As. Res. XIX. p. 60. 



RATEL, Sparrm. in Kongl, Vetensk. Acad. Handl. 1777. 



135. MELLIVORA RATEL, Storr. 



Mellivora ratel, Gray, Cat. Mamm. Br. Mus. p. 68. Cat. 



Hodgs. Coll. p. 13. 

 Mellivora capensis, Fred. Cuv. Lesson, Manuel de Mam- 



malog. p. 143. 

 Ratelus mellivorus, Bennett, Gard. and Menag. Zool. Soc. 



with a figure. 



Ratelus indicus, Schinz, Synops. Mamm. I. p. 329. 

 Viverra mellivora, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. Gmel. p. 91. 

 Gulo capensis, Desmar., Mamm. p. 176. Fischer, Synops. 



Mamm. p. 156. 

 Ursus indicus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. I. 2, p. 470. Hardwicke, 



Trans. Linn. Soc. IX. p. l\.5,with a figure. 

 Ursitaxus inauritus, Hodgson, Asiat. Research. XIX. 



p. 60, with details of the generic character. 

 Ratel, Sparrman, in Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Handl. 1777, 



p. 49. 

 The Ratel. 



Indian Badger, Shaw, Pennant, $c. 

 BEEJOO KHOOSHKEE KANGAR, Hindustani. 

 BEEJOO, Hindi. 

 BEEYU KHAWAR, Telugu. 



The Ratel, as found indigenous at the Cape of Good Hope and on 

 the continent of India, has hitherto been considered by most zoologists 

 as specifically identical. In both countries the upper surface of the 

 body and of the head and tail are dull ash-grey, while the lower parts, 

 separated by a regular boundary-line, are black. In the animal as 



