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an extraordinary mistake I cannot conceive. P. Orossii was de- 

 scribed from a specimen living in tlie Surrey Zoological Gardens, 

 which did not arrive in this country until several years after Dr. 

 Horsfleld's work was published; and Dr. Horsfield's figure was 

 drawn from a stuffed specimen collected by himself in Java, and for 

 years exhibited in the Museum at the India House ; while the type 

 specimen of P. Orossii was, and is stiU, in" the collection of the British 

 Museum. I feel that little reliance can be placed on M. Temminck's 

 statements as to his observations on type specimens. Probably in 

 this case he was misled by misunderstanding some observations of 

 Mr. Ogilby. 



5. Paxadoxums nigrifrons. B.M. 



Fur short, close, blackish grey varied with the black tips to the 

 longer hairs ; nose, crown, bheeks, and upper part of the throat and 

 feet reddish black ; tail-end black ; a wMtish spot on side of nose, 

 Under, and above the eyes : a streak at the base of the ears, and the 

 sides of the throat behind the dark cheeks, whitish. 



Paradoxurus nigrifrons, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 55 ; Illitst. Ind. 

 Zool. t. ; P. Z. 8. 1864, p. 535. 



Hah. India {Brit. Mus."). Single specimen. 



The specimen is very like P. Orossii in the nature and colour of 

 the fur ; but it is rather darker in every part, and the crown and 

 cheeks are reddish black, being in P. Orossii grey or whitish. 



In the blackness of the cheeks and throat and the paleness of the 

 forehead this species is allied to P. musanga ; but the fur is shorter, 

 and I cannot find any indications of dorsal streaks or spots, and the 

 whiteness of the forehead is much more indistinct and diffused than 

 in any specimens of that species I have seen. The specimen has 

 been in confinement ; but its fur is in very good condition. 



*** The skull broad; the width of the head at the last tooth about two- 

 thirds of the length of the palate ; the Jlesh-tooth broad, massive, tri- 

 angular, with a large internal lobe occupying two-thirds of the inner 

 side. Macrodus. 



6. Paradoxurus fasciatus. 

 Fur short, close, blackish grey ; back with five longitudinal black 

 streaks, more or less broken, especially the side ones, into spots ; 

 sides, shoulders, and thighs with small spots ; face, occiput, chin, 

 throat, and end of taU black ; forehead, spot on side of nose, and 

 under orbit white. 



Viverra fasciata, Desm. Mamm, p. 209. 



Genetta fasciata. Lesson, Mamm. p. 174. 



Viverra Geofiroyii, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 171. 



Paradoxurus musanga, Gray, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 16. 



Paradoxurus musanga, var. lavanica, Horsf. Java, t. ; Temm. Monoqr. 



ii. p. 317, t, 63. f. 2-5, t. 54. f. 1, 2, 3 (skulls). 

 Viverra musanga, Raffles, lAnn. Tram. xiii. p, 265. 

 Musang, Marsdeh, Sumatra, p 110 t. 1*^ 



