MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 903 



No. VI— A BEAR ATTACKING A TIGER. 



The following will, I think, interest the members of our Society : — 

 Last hot weather I shot a large male tiger in a beat. Shortly afterwards 

 a bear (an old female) came up the same path the tiger had come and close 

 in front of the beat. The bear did not see the dead tiger until a few yards 

 from it. She stood up on her hind legs in astonishment apparently, and then 

 with a roar (I think) rushed at the tiger, and began biting and clawing it 

 furiously behind. My sister-in-law, who was sitting with me on a rock, shot 

 the bear. I send a bad photograph of the bear biting the tiger, taken after 

 death of course. 



F. W. CATON JONES, Lt.-Col., R. A. M. C. 

 Kamptee, C. P., July 18th, 1908. 



[The photograph referred to is unfortunately not sufficiently good for reproduction. 

 On page 707 of Vol. XV. of our Journal Capt. W. H. Lane recorded a fight between a tiger 

 ard a Malay bear in which the tiger ate the bear and this note produced another one (page 

 506, Vol. XVI ) from Mr. G. K Wasey, in which he refers to an encoun'er between a tiger 

 and a Sloth-bear. In this case also the tiger appears to have devoured the bear. — Eds.] 



No. VII— BIRTH OF HIMALAYAN CAT-BEARS (jELURUS FUL- 



GENS) IN CAPTIVITY. 



Thanks to Mr. Fritz Moller I have had the opportunity of examining two 

 young cat-bears born in captivity in the Horticultural gardens in Darjeeling. 



The mother recently captured was acquired on the 10th of May this year. 

 On the 7th July she gave birth to two cubs, one ft and one $ . I examined 

 these when only two days old, the mother had become so tame. While the 

 attendant extracted the cubs from their nest she squatted on a beam just 

 above our heads, gnawing at a plantain, and though she attentively watched our 

 proceedings, showed no distress for her little ones, so that I had ample time and 

 opportunity for examining them. 



The first thing to attract attention was the absence of the very distinctive 

 colour and markings which are so conspicuous in the adult. Thus the glow- 

 ing red of the back, from which I suppose it owes its specific title, was replaced 

 by a pale rufous hue. The head was almost uniformly greyish white, the 

 black and white markings which contributes to the quaint character of the adult 

 faces being altogether absent, and the red adult face patch but faintly indi- 

 cated by pale rufous. The black patch behind the ear was as conspicuous as in 

 maturity. The black limbs and underparts of the parent were obscurely 

 suggested in the off-spring by a dusky tinge in the otherwise greyish fur ; but 

 there was no trace of the red rings which encircle the tail. The fur appeared 

 to me as relatively as long as in the mature animal. The tail was relatively 

 conspicuously shorter than in the adult. On the 4th July I re-examined the 

 cubs and measured one. From the nose to the vent was about six inches, the 

 tail was one and seven-eighths inches, and the ears rather more than half ::n 

 inch. 



