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Genus MUSTELA. 



Body long and slender, limbs rather short, claws cat-like, 

 tail cylindrical. Habits principally arboreal. One local species 

 in which the soles are naked. 



39. MUSTELA FLAYIGULA PENIXSULARIS, Bonhote. The 



Malayan Marten. Bonhote Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 

 p. 346. Miistela flawgula, Blanford, p. 158. 



Malay name " Anga prau" or " Musang pisang." 

 Face, crown, limbs, posterior half of back and tail vandyke- 

 brown becoming light raw umber on back of neck, shoulders and 

 fore half of back, and blackish on tail and hind limbs. Chin 

 dull white. Throat, sides of neck and chest bright buff, border- 

 ed on each side by a dark brown stripe from the ear. Under 

 surface duller than the back with occasionally a buff patch on 

 the abdomen. Head and body about 20 inches. 

 Throughout the Peninsula. 



Genus Putoeius. 



Body very slender and elongate, limbs short, tail cylindri- 

 cal and bushy, far coarse. Claws curved and exceedingly sharp. 

 Arboreal and predatory. 



40. Putoeius xi'DIPES (F. Cuvier). The Malayan Weasel. 



Blanford, p. 171. 



Malay name " Anga prau" or "Jela masak pisang." 



General colour golden-ochraceous to tawny, palest towards 

 end of tail. Head, below and above to behind ears, white. 

 Head and body about 13 inches. 



The Peninsula. 



Subfamily MELIN.F:. 



Genus Aectonyx. 



Body and limbs stout ; tail moderately short ; ears very 

 short and rounded ; soles of feet entirely naked except in hind 

 feet ; hair coarse and long with woolly under-fur. 



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