80 Miscellaneous. 



To collect the eggs, the Indians prepare bundles of rushes, which 

 they place A-ertically in the lake, at some distance from the shore. 

 In about a fortnight, every rush in these bundles is completely 

 covered with eggs ; the bundles are then drawn out and dried in the 

 sun, upon a cloth, for not more than an hour, when the eggs are ' 

 easily detached. The bundles of rushes are then placed in the water 

 again for another crop. — Comptes Rendus, Nov. 23, 1857, p. 865. 



On a new Lagomys and a new Mnstela inhabifinff the Noi'th Region 

 of Sikhim and the proximate parts of Tibet. Bv B. H. Hodgson, 

 Esq., B.C.S. 



MusTELA Temon, uob. TeiHon of the Tibetans. 

 This species is 9^ inches long from snout to vent, and the tail is 

 Ci7 luore. Its fur is short, soft and straight, being scarcely longer 

 on the tail than on the body. The colour is, above and laterally, 

 with the entire tail, brunncsccnt fawn ; below, entirely pale pure 

 yellow, save the head and margin of the upper lip, which, as well as 

 the limbs, are canescent ; the last, however, with more or less of a 

 brownish tint to the front or externally. The tail is |-rds the length 

 of the animal. The fur is -|ths of an inch long and very fine. The 

 dimensions are as follows : — inches. 



Snout to vent 9^ 



Head 2 



Tail and hair 6-|- 



Tail, less hair 5-^ 



Ears ... Of 



Palma and nails \\ 



Planta and nails 1-| 



Lagomys Curzont.^, nob. Abra of the Tibetans. 

 My specimens were procured in the district of Chumbi. They are 

 three in number, and in fine preservation and high state of fur. 

 They are quite alike in size and colour, and demonstrably mature 

 from the state of the teeth. They measure 7^ inches from snout to 

 vciit, and are of a murine fulvous colour, palling and canescent below 

 and on the extremities. The fur is exceedingly soft, full, and smooth, 

 of two sorts, or woolly and hairy, but both of silken delicacy ; inter- 

 nally dark slaty blue, externally fawn colour, more or less obscured 

 and darkened by the internal colour. The dimensions ai'e as follows: — 



inches. 



Snout to vent 7^ 



Head If 



Ears Of 



Snout to eye Oi 



Eye to ear 1 



Palma and nails \~ 



Planta and nails 1 j 



This beautiful little animal is appropriately dedicated to the Hon. 

 Airs. Curzon. — Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, ^o. 3, 1857. 



Daijiliiijr. April, 1857. 



