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and pale ashy grey elsewhere. Eace the same colour as the hack ; ears with short whi e 
hairs round their margins, brown outside, brownish white within ; feet and tail dark sep ia 
brown, the hair on the latter longer than on the hack ; soles of feet hairy, except on 
the 
small pads. Whole throat and breast, with the chin and upper lip close to the gape, wbi^’ 
except two or three brown spots in the middle of the throat ; fur very soft, the longer hairs 111 
the middle of the back nearly 1-| inches long ; woolly underfur about !-§- inches in leng^ 1 ' 
In the stretched skin the head and body measure about 15 to 18 inches, tail 9 ; hairs at end 3f » 
total 30 inches. 
Mention was made in the preceding notes on Martes leucolaclmwa of a specimen 
Sikkim (and probably brought from Tibet) that agreed somewhat in colouration with 
description of M. tonfcea. This skin resembles that from Leh so closely that, so far as specif 
of martens can be determined by the skin alone, I have but little hesitation in consider# 1 ? 
both the same ; both have the same amount of white on the breast,, extending to 1 
fore legs in one direction, and to the chin in the other, or much further than in M. leucolM 1 
ncea ; but this character is very probably variable. 
The skull of this Eastern Tibetan specimen is imperfect, only the anterior porta 0 * 1 
having been preserved in the skin. This part, however, despite a considerable resenabl#° c< 
to that of the other skulls from Central Asia noticed under M. leucolachncea, is dista# 
guished by being considerably smaller in size with much smaller teeth. The teeth and t ^ 
sutures show the animal to have been adult, and even aged. The breadth across 
of 
zygomatic arches is 1'8 inches, and behind the post-orbital processes 0 - 7. The length 
the penultimate upper molar or flesli-tooth is 0'31, and the breadth of the last or tub ere# 
molar 03. The nearest approach in form is made by the skull from Western Tibet , 1 
measurements of which are given under (c.) on p. 28 and both have the same characterise 0 
convexity of the frontal region between the orbits, so that it is possible that the differen° eS 
in size, both of the skull and teeth, may be sexual. The colouration of the skins is, hoAveO 1 ’ 
widely different. 
20. Mustela stoliczkana. PI. I a, fig 3, and PI. II b. 
W. Blanf., J. A. S. B., 1877, xlvi, Part 2, p. 260. 
A (/ha Mahan, Turki of Yarkand. 
Mustela ad M. vulgarem proxime accedens, sed valde major , superne fusco~arettM ia ’ 
subtus albida, cauda longiore, quartern partem totius longiiudinis subeequante , cum d°' S ° : 
aoncolore ; labris ambobus genisque inferioribus albis, macula utrinque post angulam 
fulva, alterdque ante oculvm utrumque alba, palmis plantisque confertim pilis indutis. 
tota cum cauda 12'2, caudce, pilis inclusis, 3, cranii 1'8, pedis posterioris a calcaneo J- 
poll. Angl. 
1, dried skin purchased at Yarkand. 
Colour pale sandy-brown above, the hairs rather paler and whitish at the base, Y^ 1 ^ 
below. Eur short, dense and soft. Tail throughout the same colour as the back. The 1 ' 0 
a small white spot close to the anterior angle of each eye, and a rather larger sandy-ta 1 ’ 01 ' 
spot a little behind the gape in the lower part of the cheeks, which are white to with# 1 ^ 
short distance below tlve eye. Upper whiskers dark brown towards the base, and of 
