80 Miscellaneous. 



To collect the eggs, the Indians prepare bundles of rushes, which 

 they place vertically in the lake, at some distance from the shore. 

 In about a fortnight, every rush in these bundles is completely 

 covered with eggs ; the bundles are then drawn out and dried in the 

 sun, upon a cloth, for not more than an hour, when the eggs are 

 easily detached. The bundles of rushes are then placed in the water 

 again for another crop. — Comptes Rendus, Nov. 23, 1857, p. 865. 



On a new Lagomys and a new Mustela inhabiting the North Region 

 of Sikhim and the proximate parts of Tibet^ By B. H. Hodgson, 

 Esq., B.C.S. 



Mustela Temon, nob. Temon of the Tibetans, 

 This species is 9|- inches long from snout to vent, and the tail is 

 6^ more. Its fur is short, soft and straight, being scarcely longer 

 on the tail than on the body. The colour is, above and laterally, 

 with the entire tail, brunnescent fawn ; below, entirely pale pure 

 yellow, save the head and margin of the upper lip, which, as well as 

 the limbs, are canescent ; the last, however, with more or less of a 

 brownish tint to the front or externally. The tail is frds the length 

 of the animal. The fur is f ths of an inch long and very fine. The 

 dimensions are as follows : — inches. 



Snout to vent 9^ 



Head 2 



Tail and hair 64 



Tail, less hair 5|^ 



Ears Of 



Palma and nails \\ 



Planta and nails 1^ 



Lagomys Curzont^, nob. Abra of the Tibetans, 

 My specimens were procured in the district of Chumbi. They are 

 three in number, and in fine preservation arid high state of fur. 

 They are quite alike in size and colour, and demonstrably mature 

 from the state of the teeth. They measure 7^ inches from snout to 

 vent, and are of a murine fulvous colour, palling and canescent below 

 and on the extremities. The fur is exceedingly soft, full, and smooth, 

 of two sorts, or woolly and hairy, but both of silken delicacy ; inter- 

 nally dark slaty blue, externally fawn colour, more or less obscured 

 and darkened by the internal colour. The dimensions are as follows : — 



inches. 



Snout to vent 7^ 



Head 1| 



Ears Of 



Snout to eye o| 



Eye to ear 1 



Palma and nails 14 



Planta and nails l| 



This beautiful little animal is appropriately dedicated to the Hon. 

 Mrs. Curzon. — Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal y^o. 3, 18,57. 

 Darjiling, April, 1857. 



