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black and grey, the separate hairs being grey at the base and black 

 at the tip. The fur is soft, lengthened, and straggling. The entire 

 length of this species is 50 inches, 26 of which are occupied by 

 the head and body, and 24 by the tail. I could not discover any 

 external differences between the specimens which Mr. Hodgson 

 sent, under the name of P. qimdriscriptus, from Nepal, and P. 

 musanga (see Proc. Zool. Soc. 1853, p. 191). The skuU has not 

 been compared. 



Paeadoxitbtts prehensilis. Gray, P. Z. S. 1832, ii. p. 66 : lUust. Ind. 

 Zool. ; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 543. 



Ichneumon prehensilis, Samilton, MS. India Souse. 

 Viverra prehensilis, De Blainv. in Desm. Mamm. p. 208. 



Hah. India.— The species, which has only been described from 

 Dr. Buchanan Hamilton's drawing, copied in my ' Indian Zoology,' 

 has not yet occurred to me. M. Temminck, who never could have 

 seen it, states it to be " a constant variety" oiParadoxurus musanga 

 (Esq. Zool. p. 120) ; but, as far as I know, P. musanga is confined 

 to the Malay Islands *. 



Pabadoxttrtts Pinlatsonii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 68, from Mr. Fin- 

 layson's drawing in Library of E. India Company; Horsfield, Cat. 

 India House Mus. p. 65. — Hah. Malacca {Mnlayson's drawing). — 

 Probably the same as P. musanga. 



PARABOXTniTJS CRASsiCBPS, Puchcran, Eev. et Mag. Zool. vii. p. 392 ; 

 Arch, fur Naturg. 1856, p. 43. 



PARADOxTTEtrs AMTULAiTis, Wagner, in Schreber's Saugeth. Suppl. ii. 

 p. 253 ; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 386. " P. supra niger fulvo 

 mixtus, subtus ferrugineus, lutescens ; cauda nigro annulata, auri- 

 culis dense pilosis." — Hah. ? (Mus. Munich). 



* M. De BlainvUle paid a visit to Dr. Leach in 1816. I accompanied 

 him to the College of Surgeons and the India House, where he was 

 shown the drawings of Buchanan Hamilton. He took notes of these 

 drawings, and on his return he published a paper in the Bull. Soc. Philom. 

 for 1816, which he was then editing, descrioing : — 



1. Viverra prehensilis, from Ichneumon prehensilis, Ham. MS. 



2. Cerims niger, Ham. MS. (By a mistake, he says the drawing of the 

 animal is in the British Museum.) 



3. Capra eegagnus cogrus, from C. eegagnus cogria, Ham. MS. n. 202. 



4. Capra eegagnus imberhis, from C. imherhis harbara, Ham. MS., and 

 C eegagnus chaigra, Ham. MS. 



5. Antilope quadricomiSj Ham. MS., of which he mistook the habitat, 

 " Hoormadabad," for the Indian name of the animal. 



