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ON INDIAN CIVETS. 



double the size when first taken, and then they had four molars above 

 and as many below. A survivor to 15th September was then 14^ inches 

 long, and had cut all the molars. On 20th June the incisors appeared. 

 But I must hasten to return to my first subject, and subjoin such a 

 detail of its dimensions as with the colours, may serve to fix the species 

 in the judgment of the skilful. Dimensions of Viverra orientalis, potius 

 Melanurus, mature male'. 



Snout to base or tail 



Tail only 



Tail and terminal hair 



Head, length of a long curve 



Ditto, ditto, straight 



Greatest breadth 



Ditto, depth 



Width between the ears across parietals, straight 



Ditto, between inner canthi of the eyes 



Length of ears from crown of head 



Ditto, ditto, from the lobe 



Elbow to top of corpus 



Corpus (inclusive) to tip long finger 



Knee (true) to os calcis 



Os calcis to end of longest toe 



Mean height of the animal 



Girth behind the shoulder 



Weight (fat) 



" I shall close this description, in order to render it complete with a 

 notice of the structure of the animal : head conico-depressed, with ears 

 and eyes remote ; its vertical line very slightly curved from snout to 

 occiput, and the bridge of the nose straight ;} muzzle or nude extremity 

 of the nose clearly defined, rounded, slightly grooved in front, not so 

 above nor mobile, nor much exceeding the teeth ; the nares canine, 

 being opened chiefly to the front with a narrower curved fissure to the 

 sides ; eyes midway between the snout and anteal base of the ears, 

 somewhat oblique ; rather prominent, largish, dark, with variable pupil, 

 the third lid capable of being brought entirely over the eye ; lips ad- 

 pressed, and furnished with long firm mustachios ; lesser tufts above 

 each eye, two behind the gape on the cheeks on either side, and one 

 under the chin, nine in all ; ears moderate, ovoid, longer than wide, 

 placed rather high up, and yet remotely from each other ; the helix 

 anteally having but a moderate attachment to the sides of the head,* 

 fissure on posteal edge of helix small and simple ; tragus small, but pal- 

 pable ; antitragus less so, one small salient process on the superior 



* In Viverrula the helix is carried forward toward the eye so that the ears are 

 brought near to each other. 



ft. 



in. 



2 



8 



1 



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1 



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6f 







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2 







2 







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7 







5* 



1 



3 



1 



5 



. 18 lbs. 



