800 MR. W. T. BLANFORD ON THE [NdV. 3, 



Probably the animal had just shed its winter coat, and the hair may 

 have been worn. There is only a fragment of the skull left. P. 

 quadriscriptus of Hodgson is a well-striped form with long hair, 

 having doubtless been killed in the cold season. There is no skull 

 at all in this case. Both may be safely referred to P. liermaphro- 

 ditus. 



P. crassiceps of Pucheran is said to have been remarkable for the 

 size of its head (no dimensions, however, are given) and the great 

 development of the silvery- white mark on the forehead. The descrip- 

 tion is not sufficient for satisfactory determination. P. fasciatus 

 has been already disposed of. 



3. PaKADOXURUS PHILIPPINENSIS. 



? Martis species, Camelli, Phil. Trans, xxiv. p. 2204 (1706). 



Paradoxurus philippinensis, Jourdan, Comptes Rendus, v, p. 523 

 (1837). 



P. zeylanicus, Gray, List Sp. Mam. B. M. 1843, p. 55. 



P. philippensis, F. Cuv. An. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, viii. p. 372 (1837); 

 Temm. Mon. Mam. ii. p. 339 ; Wagner, Scbreb. Siiugeth. Supp. ii. 

 p. 355 ; Schinz, Syn. Mam. i. p. 387 ; Giebel, Siiugeth. p. 799 ; 

 Gray, P. Z. S. 186"l, p. 537 ; Cat. Carn. &c. Mam. B. M. 1869, 

 p. 70, 



Structure very similar to that of P. niger and P. liermaphroditus, 

 but size rather smaller. Fur closer and softer, less ragged and more 

 even in length, and the hairs having a peculiar gloss. Underfur 

 thicker and more woolly. The upper sectorial has a very large 

 inner lobe nearly in the middle of the tooth, the length of the outer 

 margin being very little more than the breadth of the tooth at right 

 angles to that margin. 



Colour dusky brown above, brownish grey below, either no 

 markings on the back or indistinct rows of spots. The underfur is 

 dark grey or blackish ; the longer hairs are light brown with black 

 tips. Head mostly black or blackish brown, feet and tail the same. 

 The pale band across the forehead and spots under the eye occur as 

 in P. hermaphroditus, but less distinct. 



Dimensions. No trustworthy measurements are available ; the 

 head and body appear to be about 18 inches long. Skull about 4*1. 



Distribvtion. The Philippine Islands. There are in the British- 

 Museum collection two skins from Borneo, apparently belonging to 

 this form, and, as already remarked, all Bornean specimens look 

 somewhat intermediate between P. hermaphroditus and P. philip- 

 pinensis. 



If P. niger and P. hermaphroditus are classed as races of one 

 species, P. philippinensis must, I think, be added as a third race ; the 

 differences are about the same in each case. 



Synonymy. Martes philippensis, Camelli, is quoted by Schreber 

 as a possible synonym of Pallas's Viverra zeylonensis, and the same 

 reference has been quoted by Gmelin, Gray, and others. Camelli, 

 who was probably a missionary, gave a Latin list, which was printed 

 in the ' Philosophical Transactions,' of the quadrupeds inhabiting 



