78 MEILDIDJ;. 



as food, and refused all kinds of meat. Another would eat meat, fish, and 

 used to burrow and grope under the walls of the bungalow for worms and 

 shells.* 



Erans found on dissection, the tongue large broad and soft ; the stomach 

 simple, no coecmn, 5 lobes to the Kver. There was a caudal pouch directly 

 under the origin of the tail (as in the badger) secreting a brown unctuous 

 matter like the wax of the ear. Blyth described a second species, 

 A. taxoides, from Sylhet and Assam, much smaller than the last, and 

 with a longer and finer coat. 



One of the earliest figures of this animal is to be found in the well 

 known Bewick's Quadrupeds. 



Gren. Mellivora, Storr. 



Syn. Batehis, Benuett. — TIrsitaxus, Hodgson. 



4 — 4 

 Char. — Molars - — - ; 2 false molars above and 3 below ; the tuberculate 



0—0 



tooth in the upper jaw transverse, smaller than the flesh-tooth ; the lower 

 flesh-tooth with the edge sharp, tricuspidate ; the upper one has the 

 anterior and inner tubercles conical ; no external ear, only a cutaneous 

 border round the external auditory meatus ; head rather short ; feet short ; 

 tail very short ; hair long, rigid ; anterior claws very strong. 



This is another form very nearly allied to the badgers in general appear- 

 ance, but still more mrsine in its short tail and habit. It was founded on 

 an African animal, the Cape or Honey Ratel, so very similar that it is only 

 lately that they have been allowed to be distinct. The female has 4 teats. 

 The male genital organ is bony and spirally annulated. On each side of 

 the anus there is a hollow gland with a distinct tubular canal opening by 

 a round pore on the caudal margin. Each gland is large enough to contain 

 a walnut, and the secretion is dark, thick, and fetid. 



94. Mellivora indica. 



UrsMS apud Shaw. — Hahdwicke, Linn. Tran. IX. 115, with figure. — 

 Ursitaxus inauritus, Hodgson, As. Ees. XIX. 60, with figure. — Ratelus 

 tndicus, ScHiNZ. — M. rate!, apud Blyih, Cat. 207. — Biju, H., Biyu 

 hhawar — Tel, in the Hyderabad country, — Tava haradi, Tarn. — Bajru 

 bhdl, at Bhagulpore. 



' Joui-nal. M. Soo. 1\. li-2. 



