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tail, and pull me back again to renew my little atten- 

 tions to him, daily bestowed. If I called to him from 

 a distance, and he could recognise my voice, he would 

 at once set up his usual cry which he sometimes 

 gradually brought down to a kind of moan, but gene- 

 rally resumed his louder tone when I approached him. 

 This animal was a male, but showed no particular 

 marks of the sex; and by a casual glance, might 

 readily, if not examined more closely, have passed for 

 a female. I have no idea of his age ; but, judging from 

 the size and length of his canine teeth, suppose him 

 to have been advanced in life. 



" The other large ' Hooloek,' of which you have 

 the cranium, was also a male, and full grown. He 

 was likewise obtained from the Garrow Hills, in 

 Assam, presented to me by my friend Captain A. 

 Davidson of Goalpara. He came into my possession 

 in the month of April, and died at sea in July, just 

 before getting up with the Cape of Good Hope, of a 

 catarrhal affection. His death probably might have 

 been hastened from want of proper food ; such as is not 

 procurable on long voyages. This animal was similar, 

 in habit and general characters to the one already 

 described ; and may have been eight or ten years of 

 age, or perhaps older; as I am informed by the natives 

 of Assam they live to the age of twenty-five or thirty 

 years. 



" The young specimen was also alive in my posses- 

 sion. This is a female, and was brought to me by a 



