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Skull large, but the bulle averaging smaller than in the continental 
animal. 
Dimensions of type, measured by collector ; 
Head and body, 430 mm. ; tail 375 ; hindfoot 74 mm. ; ear 28 mm. 
Weight 34 lbs. 
Skull, condylo-basal length 89 mm. ; zygomatic breadth 49.5 mm. ; 
height of crown level with middle of zygoma 25.2 mm ; length of 
bulle 16.6 mm. 
Hab. Ceylon. Type from Mankeni, Eastern Province. 
Type. Adult Male B. M. No. 15, 3, 1, 57. Original No. 531. 
Collected 2nd September 1913 by Major E. W. Mayor. Presented 
by the Bombay Natural History Society. Seven specimens seen. 
The handsomest and most richly coloured form of the species. 
Herpestes smith rusanus. 
Colour as in true smithii, but size decidedly smaller. Legs not 
markedly redder than the rest, while even the ankles are more brown 
than red. Hairs of proximal half of feet inconspicuously tipped with 
red. 
Dimensions of type, measured on skin :— 
Hindfoot 73 mm. ; Skull, condylo-basal length 82 mm. ; zygomatic 
breadth 44 mm. ; height of crown 23 mm. ; length of bullz 17.3 mm. 
Hab. of type. Sambhar, Rajputana. 
Type. Adult male. B.M. No. 85, 8,1, 44. Collected 13th January 
1878 by R. M. Adam. Presented by A. O. Hume, Esq., C.B. 
This appears to represent the extreme inthe gradual reduction in 
size from South to North. Whether the smithii type goes further North 
we do not yet know, as the reported locality of Kashmir is apparently 
unreliable. 
Herpestes smith canens. 
Size about as in true smithii. Colour clear grizzled grey without the 
drabby tone found in jerdoni or the brownish or rufous characteristic 
of the other subspecies; the general colour almost as in the paler 
races of the Common Mungoose. 
Almost no hairs tipped with red, except on muzzle andears. Legs 
and ankles brown, darkening to black on the feet. Tail light grey, 
its long hairs below broadly tipped with yellowish. 
Skull of about the same length as in smuithiz, but the anterior half 
of the brain case is more flattened above inthetwo specimens examined. 
Dimensions of type, measured in flesh :— 
Head and body 445 mm.; tail 410 mm.; hindfoot 83 mm. ; ear 
32 mm.; weight 4 lbs. 
Skull, condylo-basal length 88 mm. ; zygomatic breadth 46.5 mm. ; 
length of crown 22.5 mm. ; length of bulle 18 mm. 
Hab. Mt. Abu, 8. W. Rajputana. Alt. 4,300 feet. 
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