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XIX. ON THE MONGOOSES OF HIK MALAY
PENINSI LA.
B) C. Bodi \ Ki oss, F.Z.S.
Si\ species of mon now known to occur in the
Mala) Peninsula, two of which arc described below. Oni ol
the six is apparently not indigenous; ii is:
p. Ja J I
[878).
Mungos mungos (Gmel.).
Mangusta malaccensis, 1". Cuv., Mamm. pi. 189 (1819).
Herpestes griseus,
IN |
Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XV,
Herpestes pallidus, Anderson. Zool. Researches, p. 181
Herpestes mungo, Flower, P.Z.S.. tgoo, p. 331 :
Journ. F.M.S. Mus., II, p. [48 1908) ; id- journ. Straits
Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc, No. 5;. p. 27 nqog^.
kloss.
This animal is supposed to have been introduced from
India into Province Wellesley bj European planters: it is
apparently the typical form from Bengal ' with slightly
ferruginous face and feet and buff under-fui [vide Wroughton,
Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Bombay, XXIV, p. 51 u