Volume 35, Plate XV / Mammalia (Mammals)

Telegon or Stinkard

Mydaus meliceps

About eighteen inches in total length, the Telegon is deep brown with an almost bare buff head, a broad white streak running from forehead to croup, sometimes interrupted, and white at the tail tip and claws. Found in Java and Sumatra, it is mephitic in odour and burrowing in habit.