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birds, mice, &c. The Lepcha “name he gives is <Kal/i-tang-zhing. 
McMaster in his notes writes: “The Burmese Tupaia is a harmless 
little animal ; in the dry season living in trees and in the monsoon freely 
entering our houses, and in impudent familiarity taking the place held 
in India by the common palm squirrel. It is, however, probably from 
its rat-like head and thievish expression, very unpopular. I have found 
them in rat-traps, however, so possibly they deserve to be so.” He adds 
he cannot endorse the statement regarding their extraordinary agility 
mentioned by Dr. Cantor and quoted by Jerdon, for he had seen his 
Tupaia Peguana. 
terriers catch them, which they were never able to do with squirrels ; and 
cats often seize them. 
Mason says: “ One that made his home in the mango-tree near my 
house at Tonghoo made himself nearly as familiar as the cat. Sometimes 
I had to drive him off the bed, and he was very fond of putting his nose 
into the teacups immediately after breakfast, and acquired a taste both 
for tea and coffee. He lost his life at last by incontinently walking into 
a rat-trap.” 
The Burmese name for it is Zseaz in Arracan. Jerdon states that it 
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