BANDED MUNGOUS. Mungos fasciatus. 



PLATE V. 

 Viverra Mmgo, Ksempf. Amoen. Exot. 574. f. 567. 



Viverra Ichneumon, Schreber, Saugth. t. 116, from Mangouste de I'lnde, Buffon, Hist. Nat. xiii, t. 19. 

 Herpestes fasciatus, Desm. Diet. Sci. Nat. xxix. 58. 

 Herpestes zebra, Ruppell, Fauna Abyss, t. 9. f. 2. 

 Ryzcena Suricata, Children in Clapperton's Travels, App. 

 Mungos fasciatus, Gray, Cat. Mam. Brit. Mus. 50. 



Inhabits Africa. 



M. de BufFon believed that his specimen was found in India. It is a native of Africa, and appears to 

 have a very extensive distribution in that country. Dr. Huppell found it in Abyssinia ; Captain Clapper- 

 ton at Lake Tschad ; Dr. A. Smith and Mr. Burke in the interior of South Africa ; Colonel Perronet 

 Thompson in Sierra Leone ; and Mr. Whitfield brought the specimen here figured from the Gambia. 



JELERUNG OR JAVAN SQUIRREL. Sciums Javensis. 



PLATE VI. 



Sciums Javensis, Schreb. Saugth. 781. t. 216. 

 Sciurus Madagascariensis, Shaw, Zool. 9, 128. 



Sciums hicolor, Sparmann, Vet. Selsk. Handl. i. 70. — Horsf. Z. R. Java. 

 Sciums bergmaricus, MacClelland MSS. 

 Javan Squirrel, Pennant, Quad. 409. 



Ecureuil de Madagascar, Buffon, H. N. Supp. vii. 243. t. 63. 

 Inhabits India, Java. 



This is one of the examples of the large flat-tailed, round-eared Squirrel of India and the islands of the 

 Indian Archipelago, which, like the larger squirrels of the American Continent, are most difficult to sepa- 

 rate from one another ; for according to the number of specimens which come under observation, one 

 is at one time inclined to regard them as several very distinct species, and at others, as all accidental 

 varieties of the same : but certainly, the specimens which come from the same locality are generally very 

 similar, and the change of the colours of the surface of the fur is sometimes only produced by the change 

 in the colour of the tips of the hairs. 



QUEBEC MARMOT or WEENUSK. Arctomys Empetra. 



PLATE VIL 



Mus Empetra, Pallas, Glir. 75. 



Arctomys Empetra, Schreb. Saugth. t. 210. — Rich, N. J. 147. t. 9. — Sabine, Linn. Trans., vol. xiii. p. 384. 



Arctomys melanopus, Kuhl, Beitr. 64. 



Arctomys Marmotta Canadensis, Kuhl, Beitr. 64. 



Arctomys niger, I. Geoff. MSS. Mus. Paris. 



Glis Canadensis, Erxl. Syst. 363. 



Monax Glis, F. Cuv. Mam. Lithog. t. 



Arctomys Monax, Audub. Mam. N. Amer. t. 3. 



Quebec Marmot, Penn. Syn. 270.— Quad. 397. t. 41. f. 2. 



Inhabits North America, Canada. 



