86 



MTTSTELIDJS. 



b. SkuU swollen, flattened ; nose short ; vpper cutting-teeth erect ; tail 

 moderate, not so Img as hody ; stdicylindrical. Foina. 



8. Martes foina. (Beech-Marten.) B.M. 



Black-brown; throat white.. The tubercular grinder is large, 

 massive, narrow on the inner side, as in the M. dbietum, but not 

 quite so large as compared with the other teeth. 

 The pad of the soles always exposed {Baird). 



Mustela martes, var. fagorum, lAnn. S. N. i. p. 67. 



Mustek foina, Briss. M. A. p. 246; Ketjserl. Sf Bias. W. E. i. p. 6/ ; 



Bkiinv. Ostiogr. Mustela, t. 4 (skeleton), t. 13. f. (teeth). 

 Martea fagorum, Ray. 

 Martes domestica, Gesmer. 

 Martes foina, Nilsson, Skand. Fauna, p. 167 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, 



p. 108 ; Gerrard, Cat. Banes B. M. p. 191. 

 Fouine, Buffm, S. N. vii. t. 18-21. 

 Hah. Europe and Eastern Asia, in houses (England, France). 



c. SkvM swollen, flattened ; nose short, hroad; upper cutting-teeth 

 pr(gecting ; tail elongate, slender. Charronia. 



9. Martes flavigula. (White-cheeked "Weasel.) B.M. 



Yellowish ; head, nape, rump, legs, and tail black ; chin and lower 

 parts white. The tubercular grinder is moderate-sized, transverse, 

 scarcely larger on the inner side ; but this is larger, compared with 

 its breadth, than that of the Martes amsricana. 



Mustela flavigula, Bodd. 



Mustela Hardwickii, Harsf. Zool. Joum. iv. t. 8. 



Viverra quadricolor, Shaw, Zool. 



Mustela leucotis, H. Stnith, in Griffith's A. K. t. 



Martes Gwatkinsii, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 516. 



Martes flavigula, Hodgson, P. Z. 8. 1856, p. 398 ; 1858, p. 516 ; Gray, 



Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 64; P. Z. S. 1866, p. 108. 

 Martes EUiottii, Mus. E. Ind. Company. 



Sab. Nepal HUls. 



See Mustela martes Henricii, "Westermann, Bijdrag. tot de Dierk. 

 p. 13, t. ? 



Hab. Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 



Si 





:^;g 



'^s 



Length of skull 



nose from front of orbit 



palate 



tooth-line from front 1 



of canine / 



lower jaw 



width over ears 



of nose in front of orbit 



in. 1. 



3 6 



1 



1 9i 



1 3 



2 3 

 1 4 

 Wi 



in. 1. 

 2 10 



9 



1 5 



1 



1 U 



1 24 



8 



in. 1. 



3 1 



m 



1 7 



1 



2 

 1 6 

 9 



in. 1. 

 3 1 



104 



1 6i 



1 2 



1 11 

 1 6 

 94 



in. 1. 

 3 44 



10 



1 7 



1 1 



2 

 1 8 

 104 



1 6 



2 7 

 1 74 

 11 



