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(9) Herpestes fuscus, Waterh. 

 The Malabar Mongoose. 

 (Synonymy in No. 11.) 

 High Wavy Mountains, 5,000, cj 1. 



(10) Herpestes edwakdsi ellioti, Wrought. 

 (Synonymy in No. 1) under Mungos mungo. 



Mr. Thomas has given me the following note to explain the chante in 

 name above. 



With regard to the name here used for the Indian Mongoose it has been 

 recently pointed out by Dr. J. A. Allen of New York, that the animal on 

 which the earlier names Mungos mungo were based was really a South Afri- 

 can Banded Mongoose, to which those names, both generic and specific 

 should therefore be transferred. 



After careful examination of the literature concerned we are prepared to 

 accept this conclusion, which results in the old and well-known torn, 

 Herpestes again becoming available for the ordinary Mongooses. 



With regard to the specific name of the Common Mongoose, we find that 

 the earliest available is edwardsi, which was given in 1812 by Geoffrey (Descr. 

 de I'Egypte. U, pp. 138, 139. 1812) to Edwards's figure (Birds, pi. 199, 1750) 

 of a specimen which lived in captivity in London and was clearly an 

 example of the common Indian species. 



The indistinct stripes shown in this plate and mentioned in the descrip- 

 tion, are evidently merely the artist's method of illustrating the annulations 

 of the fur, so marked in the Mongoose. 



(11) Canis naria. Wrought. 

 The South Indian Jackal. 

 Kambam, c? 1, $ 1. 

 This species has been taken many times by the Survey but is recorded in 

 the Reports (Nos. 5, 6, 9, 11, and 22) as C. indicus. It was separated from 

 that species by myself in this Journal, Vol. XXIV, p. 651. 



(12) VULPES BENGALENSIS, ShaW. 



The Indian Fox. 

 (Synonymy in No. 1.) 



Kambam, J' 1, 2 !• 



(13) RATUji-A INDICA MAXIMA, Schreber. 

 The Malabar Giant Squirrel. 

 1784. Sciurus maximus, Schreber, Saugth. IV ; p. 784. 

 1786. Sciurus malabaricus, Scopoli Del. Faun. Flor. Ins. 11, p. 8o. 

 1891. Sciurus indicus, Blanford, Mamm. No. 239. p. 3/2, var. 3. 



High Wavy Mountains 5,000'— 6,000', d 3, $ 1. 

 This is the first time the Survey has found this form of the common red 

 giant squirrel. 



(14) FUNAMBULUS PALMARUM PALMARl'M, L. 



The Madras Palm Squirrel. 

 (Synonymy in No. 2.) 

 Kambam, d 4 (I juv.), $ 3. 



