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nor has it any of the softness of fur. It is known to 
the natives of Hindostan by the name of heejoa^J"^ 
THE NYENTEK OF THE JAVANESE. 
Gulo Orientalis. Horsfield. 
This animal has been described by Dr. Horsfieldj 
in his beautiful zoological researches in Java. It 
seems to be confined to some of the mountainous 
parts of Java, and is very rare, the doctor never 
having been able to see it alive. It is somewhat 
smaller than the English polecat, and is rather more 
slender in the body than the gluttons in general. 
The fur is thick, consisting of long hairs, closely 
arranged, silky at the base, of a brown colour, and 
somewhat glossy, with a slight tint of reddish brown : 
in certain lights it appears diversified with grayish 
and tawny. This fur covers the greatest part of the 
body and head, and the whole of the tail and ex- 
tremities. The sides of the head, the neck, the throat, 
breast, and a broad spot on the top of the head, which 
passes, gradually decreasing in breadth, to the middle 
of the back, are white, with an obscure tint of Isabella 
yellow, of different degrees of intensity. This colour 
* Lieut. Col. Thomas Hardwicke, F. L. S., in Vol. ix. of the 
Linnean Transactions. 
