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brown ; bell}'' greyer, the basal halves of the hairs white, the 

 terminal halves grey, with or without whitish tips. Ears and 

 membranes tiniformly dark brown throughout. 



Skull much as in ijerforatus, perhaps a little larger on the aver- 

 age, and the braincase slightly more inflated. 



Dimensions of the tj^De: — Forearm, 63 mm. 



Skull: — Greatest length, 20; condyle to front of canine, 19-4 ; 

 breadth of braincase, 9' 8 ; maxillarj- tooth-row, 8" 8. 



Habited. — N. E. British E. Africa and Aden. Type from the 

 Chanler Falls, Eusso Nyiro, British East Africa. Other speci- 

 mens from Hodeida (Burv) and Aden (Yerbmy, Percival and 

 Dodson). 



Tyi:ie. — Adult male. B. M. No. 12. 7. 1. 46. Original number 

 756. Collected 3rd September 1911, and presented by A. Blaynej^ 

 Percival, Esq. 



True T. perfoTahis of Egypt, and also of Cutch and Kathiawar, 

 is of a comparative^ pale brown colour, and the wing membranes 

 are markedly paler than is the case in the Chanler Falls and Aden 

 specimens. 



Taiihor-ious hildegardece, Thos. 



This East African species, which has so striking a resemblance to 

 T. melanopogon in its general characters and its development of a 

 black beard in the male, may be distinguished by its pale colour, 

 white wings, and by the fact that the skull of the male is distinctlj'- 

 larger than that of the female. This is also the case in T. Sudani. 



On the other hand in such of the remaining species as I have 

 had the opportunity of examining, including T. ijerforahis, mauri- 

 tianiis, melano2Mgon, longimanus and theobaldi, and in the available 

 species of Saccolaimus, there appears to be little if any sexual difier- 

 ence in the size of the skull. In T. Imchhensis however there is a 

 little difference, but less or none in its sub-species nudaster and in 

 T. nudiventris. 



L. — The Burmese Civets. 



BY 



R. C. Wroughton. 



The Mammal Survey collection from the Chindwin River con- 

 tained three specimens of Civet. One of these, unfortunate^ 

 lacking the skull, is exactly like one in the National collection, 

 which also has no skull, from Shensi in China. The present speci- 

 men is from Nagpur, near Kindat, on the border of Manipur. 

 Though these two specimens differ considerably from the common 

 Viverra zibetha, j'et with such poor material and such confused 

 distribution, I do not dare to give it a name, but record it with 



