"Bos Soudaicus," (page 307 of Jerdon), and other large game in 

 the Tounghoo district, his attention was attracted by the screams 

 of a deer which, being searched for, was found to be a half-grown 

 samber expiring in the deadly coil of an immense python, which was 

 of course slain, while the Burmese followers took unto themselves 

 the unlucky victim, and most probably, the python also, for the 

 flesh of snakes is much prized by the Burmans ; in fact I do not 

 know any flesh that this, in such matters, most unprejudiced people 

 will not eat. 



Although my natural dislike t$) the monkey tribe is so great, 

 that I can hardly persuade myself to admire the wonderful grace 

 and power of their movements when wild and bounding amidst 

 rocks or trees, I must beg all who have an opportunity, to abstain 

 from shooting them. I admit that they offer most tempting targets, 

 and^tnat death from bullet or spear wound is a natural end for any 

 wild animal, but a monkey when shot is so human-like in his 

 actions, that I do not think any man who has once caused one so 

 to die would willingly shoot another. I once at the request of an 

 Ooriah husbandman, whose rice-field a troop of Bengal monkeys, 

 (page 11, Jerdon) were plundering, shot the leader of the band of 

 robbers ; doing good no doubt, but feeling so much like a murderer 

 while watching the expiring animal that I registered a vow never 

 again to fire at one of his race. 



No. 4. Loris Gracilis. 

 JERDON, No. 11, PAGE 15 ; SLENDER LEMUR. 

 The Burmese name for this little animal, " Monkey's concubine," 

 gives a better idea of its appearance and manners than the Hindoo- 

 stanee " Shar mindee Billee" shame-faced or bashful cat. Although 

 so little known they are not uncommon. I found a pair in a thick 

 clump within a few miles of Vellore, I had one brought to me at 

 Bangalore, and have several times seen specimens of this, or of a 

 very closely allied species at Rangoon, Shuay Gheen and Tounghoo, 

 in Burmah. A pair that I saw in confinement at Tounghoo were fe*d 

 entirely on plantains, one I have since seen in at Bangalore would 

 eat grass-hoppers and other insects. They appeared to sleep all 

 day huddled together in a sitting position with the head sunk on 



