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Of Carnivora, three species of Mungouste are sent, viz. Mungos 

 vitticollis, (Bennet), injured ; — Herpestes rubiginosus, Kelaart, 

 v. Elliotij nobis, vide J. A. S. XX, 162, 184 ; — and H. fulvescens 

 et flavidens y Kelaart, loc. cit. Of the two latter, H. rubiginosus is 

 affined to H. nyula, Hodgson, in size and the character of its fur, 

 but the rufous ground-tint predominates, the tail-tip is black and the 

 four paws are blackish ; and H. fulvescens is similarly affined to H. 

 griseus, but is of a much deeper colour, a deep fulvous or tawny 

 predominating, and the coat is more dense, though by no means so full 

 and so developed upon the tail as in H. fuscus, Waterhouse, of the 

 Nilgiris. The n&me jlavidens is objectionable as being quite unfounded, 



son assigns his subbadius to Htpposideros in J. A. S. XVI, 896 ; but the speci- 

 mens which he sent to the Society by that specific name are genuine Rhinolophi.) 



Rh. macrotis, Hodgson. Of this sub-Himalayan species we have both brown 

 and light rufous examples. 



Rh. atjrantiacus, Gray. The description of this Australian species is not at 

 hand ; but we may suggest that it probably is merely a rufous variety of Rh. 



MEGAPHYLLUS. 



Hipposideros diadema, (Geoff.) Vide Cantor, in J. A. S. XV, 182. 



H. larvatus, (Horsfield), the rufous phase, — and Rhinolophus vulgaris, Horsf., 

 the dark phase. The Arakan species described under these names in /. A. S. 

 XIII, 488, appears on present evidence to be correctly assigned. 



Taphozous /ulvidus, nobis, J. A. S. X, 975, is merely a fulvescent phase of T. 

 longimanus. (T. brevicaudus, nobis, also, was founded on a specimen of T. 

 longimanus distorted by the stuffer ; and as T. crassus, nobis, proves to be iden- 

 tical with T. saccolatmus, Tem., v. pulcher, Elliot, and as we further are not 

 now satisfied of the distinctness of T. Cantori, nobis, from T. longimanus, the 

 Indian Taphozoi would accordingly be reduced to T. saccolaimus, Tem., T. 

 melanopogon, Tem., and T. longimanus, (Hardwicke), — all three inhabiting 

 the peninsula of India as well as the countries to the E. and S. E. 



Nycticejus Temminckii, (Horsf.), exhibits occasionally an uniform bright 

 tawney-rufous phase of colouring (in the Malay countries only, so far as observed), 

 which has already been remarked in the text. 



Nycticejus (small undetermined species, common about Calcutta). The writer 

 once shot a specimen, now in the Society's museum, with patches of bright golden- 

 fulvous on the lower-parts. 



Cynopterus marginatus, (B. Ham). Vide text. 



Analogous variations occur in sundry birds, which exhibit an occasional rufous 

 or tawney phase of colouring ; e. y. various Cuculi, — certain Owls (especially 

 the small Tndian Scops, of which the grey phase was named Sc. pennata and the 



