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running down the head and nose. It is rather smaller than the Himalayan palm- 
civet, although its exact dimensions are still unknown. In Southern China this 
palm-civet is found in Hangchow, and the provinces of Kwangtung and Fokien; 
and it likewise inhabits the Island of Formosa. 
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THE CHINESE PALM-CIVET ({ nat. size). 
THE SMALL-TOOTHED PALM-CIVETS. 
Genus Arctogale. 
The two species of small-toothed palm-civets are distinguished (as their name 
implies), among other characters, from the members of the preceding genus by their 
relatively smaller cheek-teeth, and have hence been referred to a distinct genus, 
under the name of Arctogale. Externally these civets may be readily distinguished 
from the typical palm-civets by the soles of their feet being still more extensively 
naked, and likewise by the greater degree of divergence of the first toe of both 
pairs of feet from the other digits. The white-eared small-toothed palm-civet 
(A. leucotis) is an inhabitant of Assam, Burma, Tenasserim, the Malay Peninsula, 
Sumatra, and Java; while the second species (A. trivirgata) is restricted to the 
island last mentioned. The former is a short-furred animal, of a fulvous or dusky- 
grey colour, sometimes nearly brown on the back, and always paler below, with 
a tail about as long as the head and body. It is readily distinguished by the 
presence of three dark bands, which may be either continuous, or broken up into 
spots, running down the back of the otherwise uniformly-coloured body. In a 
male specimen the total length of the head and body was 26} inches, and that of the 
