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The colour of the coat is red-brown, with no markings save a very 

 narrow black line along the crown of the elongated head. The ears 

 are small, the whiskers very long. The hair is crisp, short, and 

 thick. The tail is very short, tapering rapidly. A bunch of 

 whisker grows from below each ear as well as on each side of the 

 nose. The claws are strong, sharp, and retractile. Length of head 

 and body about 68""5, that of tail about 14"'5. 



The cranium is of an intermediate type — somewhat Civet-like and 

 Paradoxure-like. The bulla is shaped like that of the Civet, but is 

 less prominent. The anterior part of it is especially flattened. The 

 opening of the external auditory meatus is small. The postorbital 

 processes are very small indeed ; but the skull is extremely narrowed 

 and pinched in behind them. The condyloid foramen is quite con- 

 cealed. The sagittal ridge is pretty well developed, and the lamb- 

 doidal ridge is very large. The paroccipital is depending. The 

 mastoid is prominent, though not so markedly so as in Nandinia. 

 There is an alisphenoid canal which opens posteriorly opposite 

 and close to the foramen ovale. The carotid canal opens pos- 

 teriorly near the middle of the inner margin of the larger chamber 

 of the bulla ; while anteriorly the carotid artery enters by the fora- 

 men lacerum, notching the sphenoid. There is a pterygoid fossa, 

 and a very large infraorbital foramen, which opens above the — . 

 The palate is exceptional in shape, having nearly parallel lateral 

 margins. Dentally, Cynogale is a much modified Paradoxure. The 



differences are mainly as follows : is relatively larger and more 



nearly equal to — ^. —— is almost quite as large as -^, which has 

 its inner tubercle still larger in proportion to the rest of the tooth 

 than in Paradoxurus. It has three external cusps, the first and 

 third being largely and equally developed, and the middle cusp not 

 descending very much below them, a form of tooth unlike that of 

 any other yet here-described Viverrine animal. -^— is of very great 

 vertical extent (relatively greater than any yet described here) ; and 

 the same may be said of -^, which is somewhat recurved towards 

 its apex. -^— is a longish caniniform tooth, recurved towards its 

 apex and placed close behind the canine. The lower premolars are 

 correspondingly developed, p-g has two small posterior basal cusps, 

 p-^ has a very long talon with two cusps (one before the other), and 

 then also an accessory anterior cusp, ^j^ has a talon which is so 



large that it forms half the crown of the tooth, and bears three or 

 four tubercles. 



As to the milk-dentition, -^^ is very much like -^, ~ is 

 intermediate in character between ^— and ~^, but is more like 

 ^. Instead of being much like the permanent sectorial (as in 

 Genetta and so many other forms), its very small inner tubercle is 

 placed inside quite the hindest part of the tooth. — is very 

 peculiar : it is hke the permanent sectorial, but with the inner part 

 rather more posterior in position, and with a talon (bearing an inner 



