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The ground colour and dorsal marks of this exceedingly numerous 

 species are liable to considerable variations, the principal of which 

 are noted by Schinz : individuals occur (probably of every species) 

 with the apex of the tail white, with elongated white spots on the ab- 

 domen, with the tail spirally twisted. In most the dorsal marks 

 become indistinct, or invisible in certain lights. The female has from 

 one to three young, of colours similar to the adult, but less distinct, 

 their fur is softer, somewhat woolly, mixed with longer stiff black hairs. 

 The young is tamed without difficulty, and is sometimes kept in houses 

 to destroy rats and mice. The Paradoxuri are in habits like the Civets. 

 They have an elliptical pupil, vertically contracted by the influence of 

 light. Their glandular secretion is of a peculiar, not civet or musk-like 

 odour. The largest specimen of a great number, measured from the apex 

 of the nose to the root of the tail two feet and half an inch ; the tail one 

 foot four and a half inches. In a male, measuring three feet one and 

 a half inch in length, of which the tail one foot four and a half inches, 

 the intestinal canal were of the following dimensions : — 



Small Intestines, . . . . . . 5 feet 8 inches. 



Large ditto, . . . . . . . . ,, 5 „ 



Caecum, .. .. .. .. ,, 1^ ,, 



Costee verse, seven pairs; spuria?, six pairs = 13 pairs. 



Paradoxurus (?) Derbyanus, Gray. 



Syn. — Paradoxurus ? Zebra, Gray. 



Hemigalea Zebra, Jourdan. 



Viverra Boiei, Muller. 



" Musang Batu" or " Sangah Prao" of the Malays of the Penin- 

 sula. 

 Hab. — Malayan Peninsula. 



Borneo. 

 The ground colour varies from pale ochreous to buff, and the dark 

 marks in shape and number scarcely alike in any two individuals, from 

 snuff colour to black. The species is apparently not numerous, and is 

 celebrated among the Malays for its great agility. It is said chiefly to 

 feed upon the larger birds, such as the Argus pheasant, which it 

 will hunt down, following its prey till the strength of the latter is 

 exhausted, when it falls an easy victim to the indefatigable pursuer. 

 The slender vermiform make, the countenance and distribution of 



