The Ounce, or Snow-Leopard 



Whether it displays the same partiality for dog-flesh as 

 the ordinary leopard is not recorded, but if so it must 

 have some difiiculty in gratifying its taste, as the 

 mastifi^s which guard Tibetan encampments and villages, 

 and are the only dogs in the country, are awkward 

 customers for even a leopard to kill and carry off. 



THE CLOUDED TIGER 



{Felis nehulosd) 



Native Names. — Pungmar and Sarchack of the 

 Lepchas ; Zik of the Limbu of Nepal ; Kung 

 OF THE Bhotias ; Lamchitia of the Khas tribe 

 OF Nepal ; Thit-kyoung^ Burmese ; Arimau-dahan, 

 Malay. 



(Plate viii, fig. 6) 



A much rarer animal than the last is the beautiful 

 but smaller cat commonly known as the clouded tiger, 

 although sometimes designated clouded leopard. Its 

 Malay name means " tree-tiger." Most of the little 

 known of this species in the wild state is derived from 

 native sources, which are frequently more or less 

 untrustworthy ; but it appears to have been seen in 

 its natural haunts by Dr. Charles Hose in Borneo. 



The clouded tiger is essentially a Malay animal, 

 inhabiting the Malay islands and peninsula, and thence 

 extending through Burma into Assam and the Sikhim 

 and Nepal Himalaya. It has a special claim on the 

 interest of the naturalist on account of the unusually 

 great relative length of its upper tusks, or canines, 

 which in this respect come nearer to those of the 

 extinct sabre-toothed tigers {Mach^rodus) than is the 

 case in any other living member of the cat tribe. 



In size the clouded tiger may be compared to a 

 small specimen of the leopard, its length ranging 



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