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XXVIII. FURTHER NOTES ON THE MONGOOSES
OF THE MALAY PENINSULA.
By C. Boden Kloss, F.Z.S.
When 1 wrote the article on the Mongooses of the Mala)
Peninsula published in the last number of this Journal
(pp. 123-5; September, 1917), some skulls were missing which
have since been recovered and 1 am now able to give their
measurements.
It will be seen that the skulls do not confirm the slight
difference in size in favour of Mimgos javanicus peninsulae over
Mungos incertus indicated by the collector's external measurements
taken in the flesh, but show that the two are of practically
similar dimensions or that the difference, if any, is rather
the other way about. The only difference between the skulls
of the two species lies in the bullae, which in incoius are rather
larger and this feature, with the colour differences, constitutes
the distinction between the two.
The skulls of these indigenous Malayan animals differ from
that of Mungos mungos in their greater length, that of mungos
being shorter both actually and relatively to its breadth and
having a shorter tooth row.
Number
Measurements of Mongooses in millimetres.
Mungos j. peninsul