MAMMALIA. 
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Vakeel p^d n 
The p ac { s 1 16 Posterior portion of the fore feet (palma), only seen on turning up the hair. 
The leiv>tp n ° Un ^ eC ^ ^ sbor t blackish hah*; the claws are white. 
°f tail; tail 19 1 S ^ n (doubtless somewhat stretched) is 18 inches from nose to insertion 
the tail- proper"^ ° en< ^ ^ ie longest hairs, which project 3^ inches beyond the end of 
Eastern. TiTlf S ^ n, d° u btless from the same species of marten, has since been brought from 
long, an( j t j^ es an by Dr. Scully, and presented to the Indian Museum. The fur is not so 
Aspects tin e ^^Aur is not quite so white, being very pale ashy grey, but in all essential 
the skull tail ** a ^ r . ees w ^th that procured by Dr. Stoliczka, and it has the advantage that 
horn Saril- T bmb-bones are left in the skin. On the label this specimen is marked 
That it wnc.?,l ant '' ^ lere ca n be little, if any, doubt that the animal had been kept in captivity. 
fro 
That it uas " Uim De n ttie, u any, ciouot tnat tne animal naci neon a 
Weight an 1 E rocure d alive, or freshly killed, by Dr. Scully, is shown by his having recorded the 
u is np i • . — — The skull is not quite adult, and has been somewliat injured, hut 
inches, tail lVa ** m)t C i u ite, full grown. The dimensions marked on the label are : — length 28 
which 2 1 - c • ^be skin measures now from nose to insertion of tail 18 inches, tail 11, of 
T inches 1 °! ^airs beyond the end ; hind foot and tarsus from heel (a little contracted) 
There a ° is recorded as 1 lb 10| oz. 
merchant a so _ sevei 'al marten skins in the Indian Museum, purchased from a Cahul 
0r blackish 7 ° ^ tko y came from Bokhara. These skins have the same dark sepia-brown 
bestan skins™^ C ° lour ’ w hite throat, glossy piles, and soft whitish under-fur as the Tur- 
ibat taken fr' ^ marten skull from Afghanistan, in the same collection, much resembles 
Sor| aewhat Skin brou gbt by Dr. Scully. The form of the zygomata is, however, 
was assio nc q 1S ^ k)r ‘ Stoliczka’s collections, published in 1875, this Yarkand marten-skin 
'bat animal fop^ doubts, to M. foina, the European beech-marten 
Peter 
Come is that tl 7~“ toh uuiamcu uy iiicxnuiaii museum. me euueiuaiuu 
H ith Jf foinc, ‘ 1G ^ arbari d skins represent a different but nearly allied form. They agree 
* Ur in the AsH' 1 * 1 kav ing a white throat, and there is but little difference in colour, but the 
ne arly W hit e a l . C form is lon ger, softer, and more glossy, and the under-fur much paler, being 
b beautv an ,° a< ^ °'' brownish-grey. The fur of one of the Yarkand skins is almost equal 
. Th^:fr st0that '>*‘b-ble. 
‘ T- abietum , he' ^ ^ euco kic] m( p a approaches that of M. foina in type, and differs from that of 
above, qq’. much broader than the latter, with a wider muzzle and less rounded outline 
( “ u 'b side is p u t r « maixen ^ P re -molars are not fully grown, and the third upper pre-molar on 
nU)r ° than tho^^ a PP earbl g through the jaw. The hinder molars resemble those of M. foina 
11 ' a bietum i s dictum . Blasius 1 points out that the third upper pre-molar in 
Margin eqn a i s £° ncave outside ; that the length of the fourth or flesh-tooth along the external 
mai 'gbi of the H ^ ransverSG diameter of the hindermost or tubercular molar, and the outer 
( onve x externall 1 ^ * S attenua te and not incurved ; whereas in M. foina the third tooth is 
rriUl »in of the hf i^ 16 * en ^ b of the fourth exceeds the breadth of the fifth, and the outer 
i c ttl0s T tooth is incurved and bi-lobed 2 ( eingebuchtet , zweiklappig). In the 
'^•1 p. 17 ’ Outsell],, p_ 212 c , . . , . , . 
Jt' ' !5ee also, on the distinctions between M. abietum and M. foina, Hensel, Wiegmann s Arcniv, 
f °atth t he 0nl y skulls 0{ 
^ le fifth upp er , u 'f' apd M. foina (one of each) that I have at present for comparison, the proportion of the 
ar is as stated by Blasius. The other distinctions are less characteristic, and probably vary somewhat. 
s 5 and 
I had then no skin of 
comparison. I have since received both a skin and a skeleton from Dr. 
,° er s b' n bas been obtained by the Indian Museum. The conclusion to which 
