Mammalia, 23 1 



penetrate daily into untrodden jungle 1 , sometimes quittJ 

 alone. : ' 



Such representations may prove fatal to strangers and 

 persons new in the country, as they already have in the case 

 of Dr. Woodford, who lost his life by a tiger on the 

 Ataran a few years ago, wholly owing to his want of 

 suitable precaution in going away from the boat near 

 evening to shoot a peacock. 



Felis tigris, Linne. 



Tigris regalis, Gray. 



LEOPARD. 



Leopards are probably more numerous than tigers, and 

 they will sometimes attack man, though he seek refuge in 

 the tree tops. Two Karens were travelling on one occa- 

 sion in the forests of Maulmain, and when daylight de- 

 parted, they made little bamboo platforms to sleep on dur- 

 ing the night in the branches of a large tree, one on a lower 

 main branch, and the other on an upper large branch. 

 During the night, the man on the lower branch was a^ 

 waked by what he thought to be a tiger, but it must have 

 been a leopard^ creeping up the body of the tree above him. 

 It had passed his branch, and was climbing up to where 

 the other man slept. He called out — the man answer- 

 ed, and the leopard was still — not a claw moved ; but 

 the sleeping man could not rouse, himself, and in a few 

 minuter the leopard rushed up, seized the man in his 

 sleep, and jumping down with him, devoured him at the 

 foot of the tree, regardless of all tjie noise the narrator of 

 the story could make in the tree above him. 

 Felis fcopardus, Schreber. 



•' Pr.rdus, Linne, ? 



" varia, Schreber. 



" Panthcra, Erxleben. 



" chalybeata, Hermann. f List 



dhtiquorum, Fischer. 



" fuse a, Meyer. 



" JSimr, Ehrenberg, J 



Leopardus varius, Gray : List. 



A pud Gray 



