External Characters o/Cynogalc benncttii. 3.13 



iiiulcrsidc was dosorihcd as hlackislj, and was tlicreforc 

 (larktT, instead of lighter, tliaii the iippersidc. IJut since 

 liis notes were taken from a living specimen, it is possible 

 that the blackish appearance of the nnderside was due to its 

 beiiif; in shadow. 



As rcjjards the colour of the yoiin^, Cantor (J. A. 8. B. 

 XV. p. 'J()3, lSK)j wrote of Mul.ivan spi-ciniens ; — " Tiie very 

 yonn^ . . . did'er from the adult in havin<^ a very soft, silky, 

 dense lur, mixed with lon<;er hairs, which are black except 

 on the chest and abdomen, where the apex is silvery. Over 

 the tarsus and the upper surface of the feet some of the 

 li;iirs have a terminal white band close to the lilack apex. 

 The posterior marj;:in of the ear is hairy and of a silvery 

 colour." Since an adult specimen from Malacca sent ijy 

 this collector to the liritish Museum is speckled with f^rey 

 dorsally, it may be inferred that the aljsence of dorsal 

 speckling; is the main distinctive chromatic featnre of the 

 newly-born young. 



On the other hand, the two young specimens from 

 N.W. liorneo in the British jNIuseum differ from their 

 mother in having no appreciable white speckling above ; 

 l)ut, as in llie adult, there is no such speckling below. 

 These specimens, in fact, bear out Mr. Lydekker's suggestion 

 that the greyness increases with age — at all events, up to a 

 certain j)oint. 



Muzzle andrJiinarium^' fPl.XIV. figs, 1,2). — The muscular 

 development of the lateral portions of the upper lip, to give 

 mobility to the mystaeial vibrissse, imparts a singular aspect 

 to the head, when viewed from above or below, owing to the 

 demarcation of the muzzle from the area behind it by a deep 

 constriction on each side. 



Another peculiarity of the muzzle^ to which attention has 

 been drawn by Mivart and others, is the absence of a median 

 vertical groove cleaving a central naked strip of integument, 

 such as is seen passing from the rhinarium to the edge 

 of the upper li[) above the incisor teeth in the majority of 

 Carnivores and all tyjjical Viverrines. But that is not all. 

 This area of the npjxT lip, in adilition to being continuonslv 

 hairy and |)rovide{l with sh(n"t vibrissa;, is also of unusual 

 length or depth. It (litters, indeed, from the corresponding 

 area in all ^'Eluroid Carnivores, let alone the Viverrines and 

 Paradoxnrines, and not excepting Crossarchus ohsciiruK, in 

 being about twice the height of the anterior vertical portion 



* For tin account of tlie miizzlf, feet, and plnnds of tlie tvpical 

 Vivirrinf?. .'■ee my paper, 1'. Z. S. l!Mo, pp. \?,\ 1-J'.». 



