MUSTELA. 273 



Z?M/r«'i«/w«.— Baluchistan and Southern Afghanistan, possibly 

 extending to Sind. 



[No specimen in the Museum.] 



Vulpes caama. 



Canis caama, A. Smith S. African Quart. Journ. (i833)». 



Megalotis caama, H. Smith Jard. Nat. f.ihr., ix, p. 236 (1839) ; Blyih Cat. 



no. 128, p. 41. 

 Vulpes caama, Gerrard Cat. Bones B. M., p. 87 (1862). 

 Fennecus caama, Gray P. Z. S., p. 520 (1868); id. Cat. Cam. Mamm., 



p. 207. 



Distribution.— South Africa. 



«. Stuffed South Africa E.L. Layard, 1859, A. S. B. 



Vulpes virginiana. 



Canis virginianue, Gmelin Sysi. Nat., i, p. 74 (1788). 



Canis cinereo-argentatus, Schreber Sdugeih., iii, p. 361 p'. x-'\ ( 77')- 



Vulpes virgineana, Dekay New York Zool., p. 45 (i 42J ; itytn tut no. 



136, p. 43- 

 Urocyon virgineanus, Gray P.Z.S., 1868, p. 522; iJ. Cat. Cam. Mamm., 



p. 209, 



Distribution. — North America, from New England to Costa Rica, 

 a. Stuffed. North America. E. Ruppel, 1885, A. S.B. 



Genus MUSTELA. 



Mustela > Linneeus Syst. Nat., I2th ed., i, p. 66 (1766). 

 Martes, Nilsson Skand, Faun., isted., i, p. 41 (1820)*. 



Key of the Indian Species. 



a . Blackish brown, with very thick under fur ; throat white ; tail 

 without hair, one half the length of the head and body. 



M. foina, p. 275. 



a^. Yellowish ; head, neck, rump and legs black ; tail without 

 hair, three-fourths the length of the head and body. 



M. ilavigula, p. 273. 



Mustela ilavigula. 



Mustela flavigula, Boddaert Elenck. Anim.,\, p 88 (1785)*; Cantor J. A. 



S. B., XV., p. 194; Thomas P. Z. S., 1886, p. 67 ; Blanford Mammals, p. 158. 

 Viverra quadricolor, Shaw Genl. Zool.,\, p. 429(1800). 

 Mustela leucotis, Griffith An. King., ii, p. 297 (1827). 

 Mustela hardwickii, HorsfieldZool. Journ., iv, p. 238, pi. viii (1828) ; Miiller 



Over de Zoogdieren in Tem. Verhandl., p. 30. 



