of the Mii3tela flavigula Group. ;U5 



Dimensions (from a Nepal skin) : — Head and body 500 

 millim. ; tail 475 ; hind foot 101 ; car 34. 



Skull 



O ca N3 ^ ^ ^ 



M.Jiavioiil<ii'SeY>&\) 100 89 60 21 43 lo 



31. zibeilhia {Kiimschatksi) .. 95 83 53 15 45 11 



3/. /oi/m (France) 84 74 51 18 40 14 



M. martes (Sweden) 90 80 50 20 44 12 



Hah. N. India, Nepal, A.ssam, and soutinvard to Burma. 



With regard to tiie difference of summer and winter pelage 

 in this race I am unable to saj much personally, as the skins 

 to which I have had access are sadly deficient in the necessary 

 data. Mr. Adams (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 51(5) points out that 

 it has a seasonal change, being much darker in summer ; 

 this fact had been already indicated in the Zool. Journ. vol. v. 

 by Capt. Shore, and a plate given, representing a specimen 

 then living in the Zoological Society's Gardens. Mr. Blyth 

 (P. Z. S. 1864, p. 482), in some notes relating to this species, 

 also remarks on its change of pelage, stating that in summer 

 its appearance is very similar to J/. Gwatkinsii. and he then 

 goes on to ])oint out that Galidictis chrysojaster is an indi- 

 vidual of M. Jiavigula in summer dress. Mr. Hodgson, in 

 his unpublished drawings, now in the Zoological Society's 

 Library, gives two figures of M. favigula, illustrating the 

 different pelages, and the summer phase undoubtedly repre- 

 sents an animal of the same species as that figured under 

 the name G. chrysoyaster. 



Mustela jiavigula borealis^ Radde. 



Mwitela Jlai-igttla, var. borealis, Radde, Reis, Ost-Sib. i. p 19 Taf i 

 tig. (1-5) (I862j. 1 . • • 



This form, described by Radde from Amurland, is rather 

 larger than the \y\y[ca\ jiavigula ; the colour of the head, sides 

 of face, nape, feet, tail, and hind-quarters is dark brown, as in 

 the preceding form, but the light colour of the back is much 

 lighter, being yellowish (gallstone-yellow, Ridgw.) instead of 

 brownish. The yellow on the throat is also very pale. 



Dimensions (of type, from Radde) :— Head and body 

 610 millim. j tail (with hairsj 4G0 millim. 



