112 Mr. G. C. Dudgeon — Mammalia from tlieDarjeeiing District. [Nov., 



two was that the ground bear was considerably larger and was in tlie fiabit 

 of attacking people and killing goats and sheep besides being most de- 

 structive to crops; tlie tree boar, on the othei* liand lived almost entirely 

 in trees and was seldom seen except in dense forest, its food being fruits 

 and honey. I mentioned this to several people but could not procure 

 a skin of the tree bear anywhere. One morning when fishing in the 

 river Rungnoo, a tributary of the Great Rungeet, I saw a small bear 

 coming down from a tree on the opposite bank, it disappeaied into the 

 jungle but crossed the stream some 50 yards below me as I afterwards 

 found its fresh tracks on the sand. My rod carrier told me that this was 

 a tree bear, but at the time I put it down as an immature Z7. torquatus, 

 this species being not uncommon. I noticed that the prints showed that 

 the claws were longer than usual in the larger species, the body 

 appeared to be rounder and not so long as that of U. torqtiatus. The 

 view I had of it was not a clear one and I was unable to distinguish 

 any other peculiarity. Some years after, while on a visit to Calcutta 

 I was shown two live bears belonging to Mr. Eigil Moller of that city ; 

 they had both been sent to him by his brother in Darjeeling and were, 

 I believe, caught in Sikhim. One was a typical half-grown specimen 

 Z7. torquatus but the other was a very different looking animal. It 

 was much smaller, rounder and with shorter fur ; the face showed a 

 distinct difference in that the eyes were smaller and apparently wider 

 apart, the forehead very rounded and the ears short ; the claws also 

 were long. T, at once realised that this must be the Rukh Bhdlii wliich 

 I had so often heard of and which I now made out to be JJrsus ma/ay- 

 anus. Mr. E. Moller sent both the bears to a Zoological Society in 

 Denmark wheie I believe they were recognised as U. torquatus and 

 .U. malayanus. The latter species has been recorded from Upper 

 Burma and probably its range extends along the Bhutan Hills, to 

 Eastern Nepal, as I am informed that the Rukh Bluilu is found at 

 Chaintpur and Elam in Nepal. 



Atherura macrura, Linn. The Asiatic Brush-Tailed Porcupine. I 

 procured a specimen of this animal at Badamtam, 3,000 feet, 8 inile.>^ 

 north of Darjeeling in 1891. It had taken shelter in a long wooden 

 trap made of upright stakes, which was set baited with a goat iu order 

 to catch leopards that were constantly destroying my dogs. When 

 discovered it had dug a hole in the mud bottom of the trap to a depth 

 of nearly 3 feet and I was probably only just in time to prevent it escap- 

 ing. Its colour was dirty whitish and it was clothed with flattened 

 short spines. The tail was long and scaly, for part of its lengtli with 

 a tuft of curiously formed l)ristle.=! at the extremity. A second specimen 

 was brought to me by a Lepcha in the Daling Division of Darjeeling ; 



