1842.] Notice of the Mammals of Tibet. 279 



outer fur quadrannulate alternately with hoary and black ; but on the 

 ruddy black of the animal biannulate only, with blackish at the base and 

 rusty at the tip. 



Remark. — Possess four skins brought from Lassa ; animal common in 

 Eastern and Central Tibet, where also Montanus is yet more frequent. 

 Fur prized by the furriers. 



MUSTELIDiE. 



VlVERRINjE. 



1 1 . Subgenus Viverra. V. Melanurus. 



12. V. Civettoides. Possess skins of both these species, brought from 

 the Himalayan districts, but on this side the central crests or spine of 

 the snowy region. 



13. Genus Paradoxurus, P. Nipalensis. I have one skin obtained at 

 Kootee, but this and the last two belong properly to the Zoology of Ni- 

 pal and India, not of Tibet. 



14. P. Laniger. One skin from Tingree. Its purely woolly curled 

 and thick fur indicates its northern locale on the verge of the habitat of 

 the genus. 



Subgenus Mustela. 



15. M. Canigula, Mihi, new. Hoary-necked red Weasel; structure 

 typical so far as appears. Fur or pelage thick, short, moderately appli- 

 ed, softly elastic, with an inner or woolly addition, and a somewhat 

 longer and laxer display on the tail, which is rather more than half the 

 length of the animal, slightly tapered and ends in the usual pointed 

 prolongation of the terminal hair; colour, throughout cinnamon red, 

 without black tip to the tail, but the chaffron and entire head and 

 neck below hoary. Mystaceal bristles small, rigid, and of brown red 

 hue ; average length of the longer piles ^ inch on the body, and on the 

 tail one inch : average length of the shorter woolly piles ^ inch : colour 

 of the latter somewhat embrowned and dusky towards the base ; but 

 towards the tips, with the entire length of the longer piles, pure cin- 

 namon-red, like the general external hue of the animal. Snout to rump 

 15£ inches : head 2f , tail only 1\ ; tail and hair 9£. 



Remark. — Common in Tibet : rarer in the Himalayan region :* pos- 



* M. Canigula is a new addition to the Mammalogy of Nepal; and Sorex Ncmo- 

 ricola is another, since my Catalogue was printed. 



