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and pale asliy grey elsewhere. Eace the same colour as the hack; ears with short white 
hairs round their margins, brown outside, brownish white within; feet and tail dark sepia- 
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, white, 
except two or three brown spots in the middle of the throat; fur very soft, the longer hairs in 
the middle of the back nearly 1-| inches long; woolly underfur about 1|- inches in length. 
In the stretched skin the head and body measure about 15 to 18 inches, tail 9 ; hairs at end 31; 
total 30 inches. 
Mention was made in the preceding notes on Martes leucolaclincea of a specimen from 
Sikkim (and probably brought from Tibet) that agreed somewhat in colouration with the 
description of M. toufcea. This skin resembles that from Leh so closely that, so far as species 
of martens can be determined by the skin alone, I have but little hesitation in 1 considering 
both the same ; both haye the same amount of white on the breast,, extending to the 
fore legs in one direction, and to the chin in the other, or much further than in .M. Icucolach- 
ncea ; but this character is very probably variable. •. 
The skull of this Eastern Tibetan specimen is imperfect, oiily the • anterior .portion 
haying been preserved in the skin. This part, however, despite a considerable resemblance. 
to that of the other skulls from Central Asia noticed under M. leucolachncea, is distin¬ 
guished by being considerably smaller in size with much smaller teeth. The teeth and the 
sutures show the animal to have been adult, and even aged. The breadth across the 
zygomatic arches is D8 inches, and behind the post-orbital processes 0 - 7. The length of 
the penultimate upper molar or flesh-tooth is 0’31, and the breadth of the last or tubercular 
molar 03. The nearest approach in form is made by the skull from Western Tibet, the 
measurements of which are given under (c.) on p. 28 and both have the same characteristic 
convexity of the frontal region between the orbits, so that it is possible that the differences 
in size, both of the skull and teeth, may be sexual. The colouration of the skinsls, however, 
widely different. 
20. Mustela stoliczkana. PI. I a, fig 3, and PL, II b. 
W. Blanf.j J. A. S. B., 1877, xlvi, Part 2, *>. 260. 
Ay ha Mahan , Turki of Yarkand. 
Mustela ad M. vulgarem proxime accedens, sed valde major, sup erne fusco-arenaria, 
subtus albida, eaudd longiore, quartern partem totius longitudinis suhcequante, cum dorso 
coneolore; labris ambobus genisque inferioribus . albis, macula utrinque post angulam oris 
fulva , alterdque ante oeulum utrumque alba, palmis plantisque confertim pilis indutis. Long, 
tota cum cauda 12’2, caudce, pilis inclusis , 3, cranii L8, pedis posterioris a calcaneo 1'4 
poll. Angl. 
1, dried skin purchased at Yarkand. 
Colour pale sandy-brown above, the hairs rather paler and whitish at' the base, white 
below. Pur short, dense and soft. Tail throughout the same colour as the back. There is 
a small white spot close to the anterior angle of each eye, and a rather larger sandy-brown 
spot a little behind the gape in the lower part of the cheeks, which are white to within a 
short distance below the eye. Upper whiskers dark brown towards the base, and of about 
