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situated in about the latitude of the great valley : the habitai of thc 

 species may therefore be presumed to be the centrai part of tliese 

 raountains, or that portlon which lies equidistant from the snows 

 of the Himalavaand the hot plains of Hindoostan. Though onjy 

 just taken when it was brought to Mr. Hocigson, it bore confinement 

 very tranąuiily, and gavę evident signs of a tractable disposition and 

 cheerful unsuspicious temper ; so much so as to convince that gen- 

 tleman that a judicious attempt at taming it mušt succeed. Mone 

 sucb, hovvever, \vas made; and when the animal, after six months 

 confinement, died ofdisease, itwas still, of course, unreclaimed from 

 its wild State of manners and temper ; in vvhich statė it manifested 

 considerable ferocity and high courage, the approach to its cage of 

 the huge Bhoteah Dog exciting in it symptoms of wrath only — none 

 of fear, 



In a note appended to bis description of this second new species 

 of Felis from Nepal, Mr. Hodgson refers to that of the Fel. Nepa- 

 lensis published by Messrs. Horsfield and Vigors in the ' Zoological 

 Journal,' vol. iv, p. 383. The ground-colour of this latter animal is 

 there described as "grey, with a very slight admixture of tavvny ;" 

 vvhereas in five specimens possessed by Mr. Hodgson the tawny 

 prevails over the grey to sucb an extenl that the tawny sbould be 

 regarded as the ground-colour in the mature animal of both sexes. 

 One adult malė is almost as brightly tinted as a Leopard : the fe- 

 males are paler than the malęs. He adds that the common species 

 o? xvild Cat is frequently met vvith in Nepal of the fullest European 

 size, and so likę to the Occidental type as not even to constiiute a 

 variety. 



The new species of Antclope is distinguished by Mr. Hodgson as 

 the Bubaline Antelope. 



Antilope Bubalina. Ant. cervice jubatd; cornubns brevibiis, 

 conicis, recurvis, sulcatis, annulaiisque ; supra nigra^ad latera 

 saturate Julvo intermixta. 



" This remarkable species is entirely devoid of the characteristic 

 elegance of the genus to vvhich it belongs. It is a large, coarse, 

 heavy animal, with bristly thin-set hair, not unlike that of the 

 Buffalo. The body is short and thick; the chest deep ; the neck, 

 short and straight ; the head coarse and spiritless, though not re- 

 markably large ; the eye, poor ; the limbs (for an Antelope) thick 

 and short ; and the hoofs short and compact, The general form, 

 proportions and attitudes, the style and character of the ears, the 

 hoofs, the hair, and, more especially, of the testes and mane, be'ong 

 rather to the Goal- than to the Deer-V.\nA. So likewise do the man- 

 ners of the animal, which dispose it to solitude and to mountainous 

 situations. It is seldom found in herds, hoveever small ; and the 

 grovvn malęs usually live entirely aione, except during the breeding 

 season. Of all the Deers or Antelopes of these hills it is the most 

 common. It tenants the centrai region equidistant from the snovvs 

 on the one hand, and the plains of india on the other ; and though 

 it be found everyvvhere, vvithin that centrai space, between the Sut- 



