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and a very large four-sided oblong tubercular grinder in the upper 
jaw, which is rather longer than broad ; and the skull is rounded be- 
hind. The nose of the Tibetan Badger, or Tumpha (Meles leucu- 
rus), is rather more tapering and more compressed than that of the 
European Badger (Meles tavus), which it most resembles. The 
Japanese Badger (Meles ankuma) differs from both in having a much 
shorter skull, and a short, rather broad nose. 
The American Badgers (Tavidea, Waterhouse) have a very large 
triangular flesh-tooth, and an equally triangular tubercular grinder 
in the upper jaw, the latter not exceeding the flesh-tooth in size ; the 
skull is also much broader, more depressed, and truncated behind. 
Of this genus I only know a single species, T. labradoria. The Taai- 
dea leucurus of Hodgson is exceedingly like Arctonyz collaris, but 
the fur of the back is longer and more flaccid, and the chin and throat 
are black, as well as the belly and legs, which is not the case in that 
species. 
Mr. Hodgson, on my informing him that the skull was very dif- 
ferent from the Taxidea of North America, proposed that it should 
be formed into a genus under the name of Pseudomeles. 
The collection of the East India Company also contains skins of 
the following species, recently presented by Mr. Hodgson, which de- 
serve notice, as several of them are now transmitted by him for the 
first time. 
1. Hexictis NEPAULENSIS. 
Dark grey ; the forehead and nape black ; the nuchal streak long, 
broad, pure white. 
Differs from H. Chinensis in the blackness of the nape, and the 
distinctness and depth of the colours. 
2. Musre.a stricoporsa, Hodgson MSS. 
Dark chestnut-brown, with a very narrow streak of a few longer 
white hairs down the centre of the back ; the chin, throat and chest, 
and a narrow streak down the centre of the belly, pale yellow, be- 
coming whiter in the older specimens; tail slender, about half the 
length of the body. 
3. ParapoxuRUs QuapRIScRIPTUS, Hodgson MSS. 
I cannot see any difference between these specimens and the P. 
Musanga. 
4. PoipHacus GRUNNIENS. The Yak. (Mammalia, Pl. XXXV.) 
The skin of a young calf represented in the accompanying plate 
is black, with a tuft of long pale yellow hair across the crown of the 
head; the under side of the body, and the tail, are covered with 
rather long pale yellow hair; the dorsal streak, which is broader 
over the withers and rump, and interrupted on the middle of the 
back, is white. 
