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This grizzle is on the face, hands, and feet, veiy fine indeed, but on 

 the back it is very coarse, and only somewhat less so on the belly, 

 where however it is usually obsolescent or entirely absent. In two 

 of the forms there is a distinct ' wash ' of ferrugineiis on the face 

 and feet, and in one the ferruginous colouring is so strong that the 

 fine grizzling, referred to above, is completely obscured on at least 

 half the face. 



These forms may be arranged in a Key as follows : — 



A. Grizzle coarser. 



a. Face, feet and tail-tip coloured 



strongly ferruginous. (Sind).ili2iM(/os mungo ferru- 



gineus, Blanf. 



b. Face and feet noticeably, but 



not strongly, coloured ferru- 

 ginous. 

 aa. Under fur buff". (Bengal). iliiM?.f/os mungo mungo, 



Gmel. 

 lib. Under fur white. (Rajpu- 



tana) ... ... ...Mungos mungo fallens, 



%1. 



c. Ferruginous colouring of face 



and feet obsolescent or en- 

 tirely absent. 

 aa. Under fur greyish white. 



(Nimar, &c.) ... ...Mungos mungo mverens, 



sub-sp. n. 

 bb. Under fur buff (Dhar- 



war, &c.) ... ...Mungos mungo ellioti, 



sub-sp. n. 



B. Grizzling very fine (Ceylon) ...Mitngos lanka, sp. n. 



Mungos mungo mungo, Gmel. 



1782. Viverra mungo, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 84. 



1792. Viverra nems, Kerr., Anim-King, p. 160. 



1812. Ichneumon edwardsi, Geoffrey, Descr. d'Egypt. II., p. 139. 



1836. Mangusta nyula, Hodgson, J. A., S. B. V., p. 236. 



1841. Herpestes ijalliclus, Wagner. Schreb. Saug. Supp. II., 

 p. 311. 



The names nems, edivardsi, and griseus are supported by descrip- 

 tions too vague to indicate more than that the animal was the large 

 mongoose of India. Three cotypes of M. nyula are in the National 

 Collection and agree entirely with these specimens from Bihar, 

 Orissa. The name 'pallidus is a mere renaming of nyula. 



The under fur is comparatively very sparse. The length of the 

 hairs on fche lower back is about 40 mm. They are dirty white with 

 three bands (each 6 mm. wide) and a tip of a hazel colour. 



