£26 MAMMALIA. 



MONKEY-TIGER. 



This animal was first discoverd in Malacca a few year? 

 aero, and it is not known to exist north of these Provinces, 

 though it is probably found to some extent in Bur m ah 

 Proper. Monkey-tiger is a translation of its Burmese 

 name, and is somewhat descriptive of its character. It is 

 about the size of a small monkey, with a long retractile 

 tail, and is both arboreal and terrestrial in its habits, 



Arctictis Binturong, Fischer. 



Viverra? Binturong, Raffles. 



Paradozurus albifrons, F. Cuvier. 



Ictides ater, F. Cuvier. 



Arctictis penicillata, Temminck. 



ctpnSjngojn c(rypc38secoDo5s G ). OD©1» 



WEASEL. 



Capt Phayre met with an animal of the weasel tribe in 

 Arracan, and it probably exists in these Provinces, though 

 il has not yet been discovered. 

 The Hebrew word rendered weasel, in Leviticus, is iden 

 with the Arabic khnlad, which signifies a mole, 

 Helictes Nipalensis^ Hodg. 



Gulo orientates, Horsf 



OTTER 



Otters abound in some of the streams. In the upper 



pa of the Tenasserim, a dozen at a time may be occa- 



lly seen 1*11 the rocks in the river. The Burmese 



*limes domesticate them, when they will follow a man 



log. 

 Lutra hptongi Blyth. 



Lutra Barang y Raffles, 



" Barang JBarang" or Ambrang" Raffles. 

 Lutfa Simutig, Schinz? 



e Arracanese otter ia a different species. 



VSntr, Fred, Cuvier, 



/ a indica y Gray. 



