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1917-] C. B. Kloss: Mongooses of Malay Peninsula. 125
Colour — Pelage a grizzle of blackish and buff, base of
hair dark brown on back, blackish on abdomen. Top of
muzzle blackish ; top of face and head dark rufous, finely
grizzled; lower cheeks ferruginous; median line of back
faintly tinged with rufous; fore and hind feet darker and
more finely annulated than the body; chin yellowish rusty:
undersides of body and limbs less speckled than the back.
Skull and teeth :—Do not differ from M. birmanicus or
siamensis.
Measurements:— Head and bod)', 316 (328) 1 ; tail 236
(253); hindfoot, 58 (54); ear, 24 (24). Skull: greatest length,
69.5; condylo-basal length, 67.3; palate length 36.0 (32.2);
upper molar row c-m- (alveoli) 24.5 (24.8) ; /»» 4 , length 6.8
6.9), greatest diameter, 7.2 (.7.5); rostral breadth above
canines, 12.3 (11.7) ; zygomatic breadth, 33.7 (31.5) mm.
Remarks:—The small size of this species immediately
distinguishes it from M. j. peninsulae though its colour is
almost exactly similar; the dark rufous head separates it
from birmanicus and its darker colour in general from siamensis.
MUNGOS INCERTUS, Sp. 110V.
Type:— Male skin collected at Ongut, Trang, Siamese
Malaya on 3rd February, igio.
Diagnosis:—Intermediate in size between M. peninsulae
and M. perakensis : pelage longer than in either ; head brighter;
colour generally rather more rufous, pale annulations coarser;
underside of body dull ochraceous, very slightly speckled ;
base of tail rather ochraceous below.
Measurements:—Head and body, 350 (361)-; tail, 276
(265) ; hindfoot, 63 (62) ; ear, 20 (22) mm.
Remarks: — I do not know of any species of which this
animal is the Malayan representative; it appears to be too
large for M. birmanicus, etc. Probably belonging to it are
two old mounted specimens in the Museums from Perak
which I have recorded as Herpesfes auropunctatus birmanicm
(Journ. Straits Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. No. 53 p. 28, 1909)
but it is impossible to say with certainty as they have suffered
from exposure and no measurements have been recorded.
1 Measurements in parentheses those of a young adult female from the
same locality (No. 116/14).
isurements in parentheses those oi a female from near Taiping,
Perak (No •
Sept., 1917. 5