26 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
in being mncli greyer, whilst from M. Mogulari,' it may he at once distinguished W 
wantin’ the white throat. Another form found in Eastern Tibet has been described 1 
A Milne-Edwards under the name of Males obscurusf hut it belongs to the gen 1 2 * 
suh-genus Arctonyx, and the general colouration of this genus diverges considerably V 
that of the typical badgers. ini, , ,, orna ]lef 
Judging from the size of the Kashghar skm, improbably belonged to a rather sinft* 
animal than M. taxus, and the fur is apparently rather softer. The colour is very simR» ’ 
the hairs on the back being about 2* inches long, white at the base, with a brownish tuV 
towards the extremity ; near the end they are black for about half an inch the point be j 
white, tail hairs the same, but rather longer, (about 3 inches at the end of the tail,) and * 
the black ring and white tips more developed ; the middle of the forehead and nose bw*» 
white; the brownish-black marks on each side from the nose, enclosing the eyes and «■ , 
meet on the forehead rather in front of the ears, which are white antenorly black ben 
and inside; cheeks white, with a slight brownish tinge ; lower parts and limbs black, e#>r 
the inside of the thigh, which appears to have been white. Only the skm of the upper p 
of the hind limbs has been preserved. , , 
Length of skin, 3 feet 2 inches, of which the tail measures 8-6 inches, and the hair at 
end of the tail 3 inches. . 
In Western Turkestan, according to Severtzoff, Meles taxus is found. 
18. MARTES LEUCOLACHNiEA, sp. nOV., 
or Maries foina, var. leucolaclmcea. 
M./Dinul J. A. S. B., 1875, xliv, Pait 2, p. 106. 
Sausar, Turki of Yarkand. 
M. magnitudme coloreque ad M. foinam proximo accedens, sed vellere multo 
lanugine albescente, distinguenda. 
1, skin, without skull, purchased at Yarkand. 
th e 
This skin is dark sepia-brown in colour, the feet and tail being nearly black. On 
throat and breast is a large white patch in the form of an irregular horse-shoe, the convex 
directed forward, and each of the lateral extremities extending back beneath the fore a ^y 
The belly is of the same colour as the back. The face is a little paler, being rather ea1 1 ^ 
brown, palest on the cheeks ; the chin the same colour as the head. The ears have s 
white hairs along the margin, and longer greyish brown hairs inside. Whiskers black. ^ 
The fur is very fine and soft, consisting of long glossy dark brown piles, nearly 2 ^ 
long in the middle of the back, and fine woolly under-fur, nearly white, but with a very ‘ ^ 
ashy tinge, and rather more than an inch in length: the whitish colour shows disti^r ^ 
throughout the body through the rather sparse longer hairs. The hair on the tail is blac 
and very long 
The SOles Ui me icei axe jjnjiujijjtuiy wvcicu trim >=>■“'"•“ "“v.v * 
the toes, and a larger naked tri-lobed pad on the anterior part of the sole. There is also a s 
very rung. _ fO 
The soles of the feet are principally covered with short hair, but there are naked P a ij 
1 Blyth, J. A. S. B., xxii, 1853, p. 590. 
2 Reekerckes Mam., p. 338, PI. LXIL 
