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a semi-collar. Whiskers mostly black, a few white bristles. The 

 rest of the body and tail white, with a yellowish tinge on the limbs 

 and belly. 



Last May, when in the Kondmals — a Government estate in the 

 Gurjats of Orissa — a Kondh brought me in this new Paradoxurns. 



It was a beautiful little creature, only a month or so old ; its body 

 and long tail a lovely, fluffy, creamy-white, relieved by the dark 

 markings on its shoulders and head. I recognized at once that I had 

 struck oil, and made every enquiry about the animal. Its mother 

 had been chased and killed by a party of Kondhs ; they had captured 

 the young one to bring to me, but alas ! had eaten its mother. 



They told me it resembled the young one in appearance, but was 

 much larger. They called it " Markhor Berana," from its long tail, 

 which they likened to that of the "Markhor" or Langur monkey. 



They informed me it was very rare, only met with in the deeper 

 forests, far away from villages, and that it nested in trees. 



I named my little stranger " Raja." At first he would touch 

 nothing but mangoes and milk ; of the former he was very fond, and 

 would eat four or five a day. Subsequently I fed him on puddings 

 made of rice or soojee and milk sweetened, for he would not touch 

 it without sugar. I occasionally gave him a little meat, either raw 

 or cooked, as a treat. He increased rapidly in size and had an 

 omnivorous appetite. Rats, birds, white ants, grasshoppers, fruits of 

 all kinds, were eagerly devoured. He attacked and killed several 

 small harmless snakes, crushing in their heads with his needle-like 

 teeth. 



I used to let him out of his cage a good deal, and he was very fond 

 of scampering about the house with his tail held straight out behind 

 him, and carefully kept from touching the ground. He was a clean 

 little beast, but on maturing he developed a sickly odour, caused by a 

 secretion from two subcaudal glands. 



He became very tame and would climb up on to my knees and 

 shoulders for a spoonful of sweet tea, of which he was excessively 

 fond. On several occasions when he climbed into a tree and we were 

 almost fearing we should lose him, I have coaxed him back by rattling 



