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This otter is trained in some parts of India, in the Jessore district 
and Sunderbunds of Bengal, to drive fish into nets. In China a species 
there is driven into the water with a cord round its waist, which is 
hauled in when the animal has caught a fish. 
No. 196. LUTRA MONTICOLA ve/ SIMUNG. 
( Jerdon’s No. 101). 
HapitTat.—Nepal, Sumatra, and Borneo. 
Description.—* The colour is more rufous umber-brown than Z. zazr, 
and does not exhibit any tendency to grizzling, and the under surface 
is only somewhat hoary, well washed with brownish ; the chin and edge 
of the lips are whitish ; and the silvery hoary on the sides of the head, 
on the throat, and on the under surface of the neck and of the chest is 
marked ; the tail above and below is concolorous with the trunk. The 
length of the skeleton of an adult female, measured from the tip of the 
premaxillaries to the end of the sacral vertebre, is 23°25, and the tail 
measures 17°75 inches” (Anderson). Of the Sumatran specimen the first 
notice was published in 1785 in the first edition of Marsden’s ‘ History 
of Sumatra.’ ‘This otter is larger than the common Indian one, the 
skull of a female, as given by Dr. Anderson, exceeding in all points 
that of male of Lutra natr. 
Jerdon has this as Lutra vulgaris, which is the common English 
otter, but there is a difference in the skull. 
No. 197. LutTRA ELLiot1. 
Hapirat.—Southern Mahratta country. 
Descriprion.—The colouring is the same as the last, only a little 
darker ; the distribution of the silvery white is the same; the muzzle is 
however more depressed than in the last species, and it differs from 
L. nair by a broader, more arched head, and shorter muzzle. 
Dr. Anderson, who distinguishes it by the feature of its skull from 
the two preceding species, says: ‘‘ It may be that this otter has a north- 
westerly distribution, and that it is the species which occurs in the 
lake at Mount Abu in Rajputana, and also in Sindh and in the Indus. 
No. 198. LUTRA AUROBRUNNEA. 
Hasirat.—Nepal. 
Description.—Fur of a rich ferruginous brown colour, the upper 
surface of the head being a deeper brown than the back; the nose is 
bare; the ears are small and pointed posteriorily. All the strong 
bristles of the moustache, eyes, cheeks, and chin, are dark brown; 
claws as in Lutra (Anderson). Hodgson says it has a more vermiform 
