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EASTERN H I N D O O S T A N. 



5?ANDIC0TE 



Kats. 



Oriental 



Mouse. 



Flora of Co- 



ROMAND£I,. 



Tab. I. 



The Serval, Hijl. ^ad. i. N" 69, was omitted among the 

 animals of Malabar^ where it is chiefly found. It inhabits the 

 forefts, and very feldom defcends from the trees, in which it 

 breeds ; is fierce and untameable. The Malabars call it Ma- 

 yipute. 



Bandkote Rats are the peft of this country, as they are of all 

 India. It was firft defcribed to me by my venerable coeval 

 Do(5tor Patrick Ruffel, but I never could procure afpecimen. It 

 is generally agreed that the Bandicote is at lefl five times the 

 weight of the brown rat ; and comparative with that kind it 

 has a fliorter and thicker tail ; that its general form is much 

 thicker, and the back arched, fo that at firft light it looks like a 

 little pig ; it is lefs a<5live and alert than the brown rat, is infi- 

 nitely mifchievous in gardens ; burrows imder the houfes, and 

 will even undermine them, fo as to caufe them to fall ; never 

 goes on board fl^ips. The Fallnqiiin boys eat this kind, but will 

 reje<5l the common rat. 



The Oriental Moufe, HiJl. ^ad. ii. N"" 304. Sbaws Nat. 

 Mifcel. N° 73, is an elegant little fpecies, grey, marked length- 

 ways with twelve lines of fmall pearl-colored fpots. 



Very lately hath appeared the Plants of Coromanijel, 

 publifhed by William 'Roxburgh-, M. D. under the aufpices of 

 the East India Company, in a manner worthy of it. An in- 

 ftru6live introduction is prefixed to the work by Doiftor Patrick 

 Riijfel. I fele(ft from this fplendid Flora a few of the trees, 

 which, from their magnitude, contribute to the ornament of 

 the country. 



The firft is the Gyrocarpus Jacquiniy or Catamaran tree, 



employed 



