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Eheu : it seems only yesterday ; but my dear host, a comrade 

 in many a day's sport, and his young bride who was then with 

 him, have both been dead for some years and their " vagrant" guest 

 has rusted from a young Captain into a battered and weather-beaten 

 field officer. 



No- 29- Vivverra-Zibetha. 



JERDON, No. 119, PAGE 120 ; LARGE CIVET CAT. 



The Burmese name for this civet cat, " Horse-cat" has reference 

 to the erectile mane on the back. They grow to a great size and 

 commit vast havoc when they get into a hen roost : one which I 

 shot under my house at Tounghoo was, without being unfairly 

 stretched out, forty-six inches, nearly four feet in length, and had 

 just killed seven of my finest fowls. I have killed others, I think 

 quite as large. 



No. 30- Paradoxurus Musanga- 



JERDON, No. 123, PAGE 126 ; COMMON TREE-CAT. 



The " Toddy Cat," as it is often called, is accused, and I believe 

 with justice, of doing great damage to vegetable gardens. 



While in Rangoon I had a very fine one, perfectly gentle and 

 very playful ; it was unfortunately allowed too much liberty and, 

 one day having wandered to a neighbour's kitchen was killed by his 

 cook and sold to a Chinese carpenter who intended to eat it. 



No. 31- Paradoxurus Grayi. 



JERDON, No. 124, PAGE 128 ; THE HILL TREE CAT. 

 I can testify that there is in the Northern Circars an animal 

 closely answering to this description and with the power, vide page 

 128 of Jerdon, of " exhaling when irritated, a most fetid stench by 

 " the discharge of a thin fluid." One beautiful moonlight night on 

 my return from mess at Russelcondah, I found some of my clogs 

 much excited about a large creature evidently of the paradoxus 

 family which they had, I suppose, hunted into a cork tree in my 

 garden. 



