of the, Muatela flavigula Group. 343 



The following species aivl race? (wliich may be easily 

 recognized) are refcrrecl to this group: — 



IJnb. 



I. [n) M ustela favigula (i/pi'ca. Nepal, Assam to Burma. 



(A) horeah'ft . . Amnrland & E. Siberia. 



(c) peninsularis . Malay Peninsula. 



{d) > Jlenricii . , Java, Sumatra, liorneo. 



{e) kudtiineiisis . Kiiatun, N.W. Fokien. 



(./') ■ — crant/io.fpi/a . Formosa. 



II. JJustela Gtcatkinsii . . . . Madras. 



Ke>/ to the Grouji. 



A. Solos of foot hairy. 



a'. Hond dark brown (soal-browii, llidg. *). 

 rt*. Shoulders lijrlit. 



fl^. Smaller ; back brownish (clay, 

 Kid-.). 

 n\ Uiiilerpart.s light (ecru -drab, 



llidg. ) M ustela flnvi(/ula typica. 



Ij*. Undeqiart.s darker (drab, Ridg.) . . M. f. kuatumnsis. 

 b^. Larger; back yollowish (gallstone- 

 yellow, IHdg.) M.f. borealii. 



i*. Shouldora dark brown (seal-brown, 



IJidg.) M. Gwatkitim. 



i'. Head light brown (bistre, Ridg.) M.f. .ranthospHa. 



B. Solos of foot naked. 



a. Shoulders conspicuously lighter than rest 



of back M.f. peninsularis. 



h. Shouldor.«! not conspicuously lighter than 



rest of back M. f. Jlenricii. 



Mustela Jlavignla^ Bodd. 



The White-chcekcd jrme/, Pounaut, Quad. ii. p. 331 (1781); id. 3rded. 



ii. p. o2 (1792^. 

 Mtmfe/a J/arit/uia, Bodd. Elencli. Anim. p. 88 (ex Ponn.) (1785); 



Scliinz, Svnops. IManmi. p. 3]i) (1825): Fi.«chor, Synops. Slamni. 



p. 218 (1*820); Bennett, (tard. & Menag. Zool. Soc. p. 22-5, fig. 



(1830); Shore, Zool. Journ. v. p. 271 (183o), supj)!. plate xliv.; 



S. Miiller, Over do Zoog. van den Ind. Arohip. p. 30 (1839-44): 



Schrobor, Siingefb. Su])pl. 2, p. 224 (1841) ; Giebol, Siiugeth. p. 774 



(18.09); Thos. P. Z. S. 18s(i, p. (57; Hlanf. Faun. Br. Ind., Mamni. 



p. }r,H (1H91); .lent. Cat. Manun. xMus. des P.-B. p. 140 (1802); 



Flower, P. Z. S. 1900, p. 3:',3. 

 Muste/a tnclina, KeiT, An. King. p. 183 (1792). 

 Vinrra (piadrivolor, Shaw, Oen. Zoo]., Miiniiu. J. 2, p. 420 (1800). 

 Mnstvla Ivucotis, Beclist. Uebers. viorf. Tliiore, ii. p. 375 (18(X)). 

 Miirtc (I t/orye (lor6e, Desm. Manim. p. 185. no. 4 (1820). 



* Hidgwaj', ' Nomenclature of Colours' (1880). These determinations 

 must be taken only as n]>proxiniate. 



