2rj4 JOURNAL, BOM BAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIX. 



The measurements are as follows : — 



nifjht. Left. 



Hound burr .. ... ... 11 inclfcs. 11 inches. 



Above burr 9^ ,. 10 



Length outside curve ... 'M\ ,, .% 



Jirow tines ... ,.,. ... I5'j' ,, 14 „ 



Between tips... ... ... 22 inches. 



Widest span ... ... .. 26|- „ 



It is probable that the head would have exceeded these measurements but for 

 the fact of the tips having been injured when in velvet. 



H. S. DA VIES. 



YKUANfiVAIING, U. B., 



'Ind November 190R. 



No. 1 1 1. —WILD PIGS' LAIRS IN THP] llAINS. 



In the volume on Mammals in the Indian Fauna series it is stated that wild 

 pigs make lairs for their young by forming a shelter of grass. The other day I 

 came on several of these shelters, which had been abandoned, composed of dead 

 ])ranches and leaves. The Burmans who were with me told me that the pigs 

 make these shelters in the rains and retire into thcni when it is raining heavily, 

 moving about and feeding when the rain abatc;s. There were al)out a dozen of 

 these lairs in thick forest close together on the top of a small spur and it was 

 evident that a herd had made the place their rains headquarters. The Burmans 

 called them " Wetthaiks" or '' Pigs' ne.sts" and the name describes them very 

 well. The shelters as I saw them were merely heaps of dried branches and 

 leaves and had probably been in use ibis last rains. 



H. W. BLANFORD. 

 A. C. Forests. 

 Cami', MoiNVWA Disr., IJ. Jiin;.\iA, 

 2\Wd December 1908. 



No. IV.— HABITAT OF CHINESE PANGOLIN {MAN IS AUlllTA). 



{With a map^ 



I read with interest Major Wall's note under the above heading wliicli 

 appeared on pp. 078-9, Vol. XVIII of our Journal, 



Blanford, '' Fauna of British India, Mammalia ", gives as habitat of M. aiirita 

 '• Himalayas as far west as Nepal, at moderate elevations, Assam, hills north of 

 Bhamo, Karcnnee.and Southern China (Amoz, Hainan, Formosa)" ; and under 

 M. jat-anica he writes " From Sylhet and Tipperah, and from lower ranges 

 near Bhamo, throughout Burma, Cochin China, and Cambodia, the Malay Penin- 

 sula, "etc. . , . and adds, " I have not been able to ascertain whether this 

 species or M. aurita inhabits the hills south of Assam." 



I attach a rough sketch map (very rough, I fear) of the part under considera- 

 tion, a reference to which will shoM- the distribution of the two species as 



