24 PRIMATES, CARNIVORES AND UNGULATES 



Muzzle, limbs and lower part of throat very dark brown: hairs 

 of forehead grizzled. A small white spot below eye. Tail black 

 except the tip which is white. 



In every way a far smaller animal than the other 

 member's of the genus, skull especially much less robust and 

 teeth much smaller. Head and body about 19 inches. 



Known at present from Jalor and Perak, Malay Penin- 

 sula. 



29. PAKADOXURUS LEUCOMYSTAX, (Gray). The White- 

 whiskered Palm-Civet. Blanford, P.Z.S., 1885, p. 805. 

 Gray, Cat. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 1869, p. 73. 



Malay name " Musang bulan " or " Musang tenggalong." 



No spots or stripes. 



General colour reddish brown, paler and yellower below ; 

 the entire upper surface slightly grizzled. Sides of head from 

 eye to ear and extending to sides of neck bright buffy : front of 

 face and throat occasionally similar. Ears and sides of muzzle, 

 nape, shoulders, fore limbs, hind feet and tail variably blackish- 

 brown. The tip of tail sometimes buffy. Whiskers yellowish 

 white. Head and body about 28 inches. 



The Peninsula and Singapore Island. 



30.* PAKADOXURUS LEUCOMYSTAX KOBUSITS, Miller. The 

 Paler White-whiskered Palm-Civet. Miller, Proc. Biol. 

 Soc. Washington, 1906, p. 26. 



Like Paradoximis leucomystax typicus but smaller and 

 paler. General colour dull buff, the back darker, being tinged 

 with russet-brown and having the hairs everywhere black- 

 tipped ; bnt the darkening inconspicuous except on crown, neck 

 and shoulders. Upper half of cheeks light buff, clearer than 

 that of body ; chin and throat darker. Feet, ears and tip of tail 

 blackish. Whiskers pale buff. Head and body about 25 

 inches. 



The Peninsula, where it is a possibly the northern form of 

 the last species: type from Trang. Two old mounted speci- 



Jour. Straits Branch 



