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fiolil. They will occasionally attack a man -wlu'n alone. On closccn(lin<? the 

 Tonasscrini a few years ago on rafts, the foremost raft jjasscd over a rapid, and made 

 a short turn into a little cove below, when a l)ear from tlie shore made a plunge at 

 the raft and threw the two Karens on it into the water. At this moment the other 

 rafts came in sight, and the bear retreated. On another occasion I met with a liurman 

 and a hear that he had just shot, and the Barman assured me that he shot the bear 

 in the very act of running upon him ; and last year a Karen of my acquaintance in 

 Toung-ngoo was attacked by one, overcome and left by the bear for dead. Though 

 severely bitten, the man recovered. The Kainees and Karens describe a smaller 

 species, yellow on the breast, for which they have a distinctive name, but I imagine 

 it is a variety of the above. The Burmese and northern Karens say there is a species 

 with feet and hands like a man, which they call (loo-woon) man-bear. This I suspect 

 to be a I'ahulous animal, founded on reports of the ourang-outang." Is it not equally 

 probable that it may apply to the U. Ttbetanun or I'roclieiluii, and the smaller species 

 with a distinctive name to Ildardos ? It seems strange that the " northern Karens " 

 only should hear of the ourang-outang. 



Uksus, Linnccus. 



U. TiBETAN0s, F. Cuv. 



Two young bears which I once reared (of I believe this species) afforded me a 

 pleasing illustration of Burmese feeding. I ])rocured them very young, when about 

 to proceed by boat through the delta, to Uangoon, and having no milch goat with me, 

 and knowing the repugnance of Buddhists to sui)ply milk, I was rather at a loss how 

 to rear them. I soon found, however, all my difficulties smoothed over, for no sooner 

 did I make known the wants of my tender charges to the women of the villages at 

 which I stopped, than quite a competition ensued among them as to which of them 

 should contribute milk for their sujtport, the act of so doing being a work highly 

 meiitorious, in a Buddhist point of view, as contributing to save life, and more 

 matrons' milk was delivered on board my boat than I knew what to do with, and 

 wonderfully did the young bears thrive on it. An adult shot by myself in the Pegu 

 district measured in the flesh G feet and 2 inches. This was, I believe, H. Tibetanus, 

 and was quite unlike the little Alalaj-an species, H. Malayanus (W.T.). 



PKOcnEiLTTs, Illiger. 

 Differs from other TTrsida by having only 4 upper incisors. 

 H. LABiATUS, Blain. 

 The Indian black bear. 



This animal has not hitherto been recorded in Banna, bat a young boar I once 

 had in Toung-ngoo with only 4 U])per incisors could hardly have belonged to any 

 other species. 



Arctonyx, F. Ciwier. fi 



Dentition, I. g ; C. S ; P.M. * ; M. f. 



Feet plantigrade, with live strong fossorial claws. Habit that of a badger, but 

 more robust. 



A. coLLARis, F. Cuv. 



Khwae-tawet or Wet-tawet. 



Colour, upper parts, with head, throat, and breast yellowish-white, more or 

 less grizzled. Nape, a narrow band across the breast, anterior portion of abdomen 

 and the extremities deep blackish-brown. There is also a brown band from the 

 middle of the u])per lip, gradually widening posteriorly, and including the eyes and 

 cars, and another smaller and naiTowcr band from the lower lip passing through the 

 cheek and uniting with the other on the neck. 



Head and body 25 ; tail 7 inches. 



Kanges froTU Xipal to Bengal and Assam, and thence to AraUan and the 

 Tsittoung Valley. 



