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their pursuit afforded me occasional amusement. Soon after sunset 

 they directed their flight in quick succession along the hedge which 

 surrounded a village in which I had my abode, and I readily caught 

 them with a large net. 



Dr. S. Miiller relates the following incident to show the vast 

 numbers in which the species of Nyctinomus (Dysopes) occasionally 

 congregate. " During my researches near the mountain Gede, in 

 Java, some natives who were at work in a neighbouring rice plan- 

 tation called my attention to a hissing noise, near a tall Rasamala 

 tree, Liquidambar altingiana, Blum. The fissure from which it pro- 

 ceeded, being at a considerable distance from the ground, and the tree 

 of a gigantic size, it was almost impossible to reach it by climbing ; 

 the tree was therefore cut down, when, to my astonishment, the interior 

 of the fissure, although of considerable extent, was so completely covered 

 by individuals of the Nyctinomus (Dysopes) dilatatus, that not the 

 smallest spot remained unoccupied." 



Order II. FERjE. 

 Fam. FELID.E. 



A. SANGUINABIA, Gray, Cat. Mamm. 



Br. Mus. Syst. List, XIX. 

 a. Felina. 



Genus FELIS, Linn, et al. 

 72. FELIS TIGRIS, Linn. 



Tigris regalis, Gray, Cat. Mamm. Br. Mus. p. 40. 

 The Royal Tiger, Bennett, Tower Menag. with a Jig. 25. 

 BAGH, Sanskrit (pronounced Baugh). 

 PUTTITE WAGH, or Striped Tiger, of the Mahrattas, 



Colonel Sykes. 



WAHAG, Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Madras Journ. X. 104. 

 RIMAU or HARIMAU, of the natives of Sumatra. 

 MACHAN, of the natives of Java. 



HAB. Southern India, from the Indus to the south-east 

 boundary of China. It is also found in Java and Su- 

 matra, and probably in Borneo ; but according to M. 

 Temminck, Hindustan is its true birth-place. (Monogr. 

 I. p. 89.) 

 A. From Dukhun. Presented by Colonel Sykes. 



