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which the tail is half. Fur dense and woolly at base, but with long 

 straight hairs intermixed : the prevailing colour pale dull yellowish or 

 fulvous-brown, with three blackish dorsal streaks; below paler, more or 

 less albescent : a white streak on the nose to between the eyes ; and the 

 ears black at base, with the terminal half flesh-coloured and scantily 

 furnished with white hairs : crown more or less dusky, grizzled with 

 whitish ; and the paws and terminal half (or nearly so\ of the tail black- 

 ish. Whiskers long and black. Inhabits the Burmese countries (Arakan, 

 Tenasserim, &c.) ; and is said to be found likewise in Sylhet. 



P. eubidus, nobis, n. s. A large species, of a prevailing deep maronne 

 colour, with black paws and terminal third of tail ; the nape also black- 

 ish : no dorsal stripes or spots : a whitish band across forehead, extend- 

 ing broadly in front of the ears ; and a duller white streak upon the nose, 

 passingto pale ruddy on the forehead : ears black externally : whiskers 

 conspicuously white : lower parts paler ; but the fore-part and sides of the 

 neck blackish, with a pale lateral streak continued downward from the 

 white in front of the ears. Fur rather coarse, obscurely grizzled, with 

 dusky-grey woolly pile at base. Entire length about 44 in., of which the 

 tail is 18 in. : hind-foot from heel 3| in. A broad pure white tail-tip in 

 the specimen, which was purchased already stuffed ; the individual having 

 its nape much abraded from being tied up when alive. Hab. ?* 



Among the mammalia sent by the Maharaja of Burdwan, are a stuffed 

 Tiger, 8 Leopards, and 9 Bears, an albino Jackal, f 2 Ilatels, Arctonyx 

 collaris, numerous Traguli (or ' Mouse Deer'), with various others un- 

 necessary to particularise, and 5 species of Kangaroo, three of which are 

 new to our museum, viz. IIeteropus penicillatus, Bettongia peni- 



* Of this genus we have now 8 species, counting mbsanga and typus as one, and 

 excluding the derbiantts as not properly appertaining to it. 



1. P. RUBIDUS, nobis, ut supra, Hab. ? 



2. P. Gtrayii, Bennett : P. nipalensls, Hodgson. Hab. Himalaya, and moun- 

 tains of Arakan. One specimen from the latter locality has the entire tail ful- 

 vous-white. 



3. P. laniger (?), Hodgson, ut supra. Hab. Himalaya ? 



4. P. leucomystax, Gray : Amblyodoii auratus, Jourdain. Hab. Malayan 

 peninsula, &c. 



5. P. zeylonicus, (Schreber). Hab. Ceylon. 



6. P. lexicons, nobis, ut supra. Hab. Burmese countries. 



7. P. trivirgatus, Iteinwardt. Hab. Malayan peninsula, &c. 



8. P. musanga, (Marsden) : P. typus, F. Cuv. Hab. India, Burma, and 

 Malay countries. 



t We have specimens of the Jackal in the museum, — pure white, coal-black, 

 and bright rufous. 



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