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We deal with this specimen with great hesitation. The skull is too 

 badly damaged to be of any use in determining the genus. Croddura 

 fuliginosa is a Himalayan species and though this Survey has proved the 

 extension of C. horsfieldi, the Ceylon species, on to the mainland, a speci- 

 men having been obtained in Kanara, there is no record of any Croddura 

 in the plains of India. In the circumstances we accept the probabilities 

 and rank this specimen as a Pachyura. 



More than 20 species, of abovit the same size as this specimen, have been 

 described. The name stoliczkana was adopted, to represent this group 

 provisionally, in the Nimar Report (No. 4). This specimen does not 

 altogether agree with any of the published descriptions mentioned above, 

 nevertheless we propose for the present to list it as stoliczkana. 



Felis affinis, Gray. 

 The jungle Cat. 



(Synonymy in No. I.) 

 $ 777, 780. Khapa, Hoshangabad. 

 S 856, 857. Chimar, Hoshangabad. 

 c? 858, 878. Dhain, Hoshangabad. 

 5 915. Bori, Hoshangabad, 



5 1028. Pachmarhi, Hoshangabad. 

 $ 1236. Mundra, Saugor. 



6 1593, 1595. Chanda. 



{See also Reports Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6.) 



MusTGOS MUNGO, Gmel. 

 The common Indian Mongoose. 

 (Synonymy in No. I.) 

 S 1116,1117,1130. ? 1132,1133,1138. Sohagpur, Hoshanga- 

 bad. 

 (S 1210. Mundra, Saugor. 

 2 1249, 12-54. Damoh. 

 $ 1566, 1594. Chanda. 



{See also Reports Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.) 



MuNGOS SMiTHi, Gray. 

 The ruddy Mungoose. 



1837. Herpestes smithi, Gray. Mag. Nat. Hist. I., p. 578. 



1839. Herpestes thysanourus, Wagner. Munch. Gel. Anz. IX., p. 440. 



1841. Crossarchus rubiginosus, Wagner. Schreb. Saug. Supp. II, p. 329. 



1851. Herpestes ellioti, Blyth. J. A. S. B. XX, p. 162. 



1864. Herpestes jerdoni, Gray. P. Z. S., p. 550. 



1867. Herpestes monticolus, Jerdon. Mamm., p. 135. 



1888. Herpestes smithi, Blanford. Mamalia No. 61. 

 (S 973. Rorighat, Hoshangabad. 

 (S 1023. Pachmarhi, Hoshangabad. 



The type locality of Gray's smithi is not known, but as it was presented 

 by Jerdon it was probably from S. India, and was also very likely the 

 specimen on which jerdoni was based, ellioti and monticolus were also 

 based on specimens from the Madras Presidency, and these may well all be 

 synonyms. The names thysanourus and rubiginosus were both given by 

 Wagner to a Kashmir animal. There is no Mongoose with a black tipped 

 tail from Kashmir in the National Collection, nor have we seen any record 

 of such elsewhere, so for the present these names may conveniently remain 

 in the synonymy of smithi. 



