CATALOGUE. 115 



posteriorly, including the eyes and ears, another somewhat narrower 

 arising from the lower lip, passing the cheek, uniting with the former 

 on the neck, are deep blackish-brown. Tail short, attenuated towards 

 the end, covered with rough hairs. Feet plantigrade ; claws five on 

 each of the extremities, strong, compressed, fossorial ; that of the index 

 of the fore foot greatly exceeding the others in size. 



From the observations which M. Duvaucel made on an individual 

 contained in the Menagerie at Barrackpore, he informs us that in its 

 general habits it resembles the bears : it passes the greatest part of the 

 day in profound somnolence, but becomes active at the approach of 

 night : its gait is heavy, slow, and painful ; it readily supports itself 

 erect on its hind feet, and prefers vegetables to flesh. The specimen 

 in the Company's Museum measures from snout to root of the tail two 

 feet one inch : the tail seven inches ; at the rump it is one foot high. 



Genus LUTRA, Ray Linn. Syst. Nat. 1735. 

 MUSTELJE Species, Linn., GmeL, et al. 



130. LUTRA NAIR, Fred. Guv. in Diet, des Sc. Nat. 

 XX VI I. p. 247. 



Lutra Nair, Fr. Cuv. 1. cit. Sykes, Cat. ofDukhun Marnm. 

 Pr. Zool. Soc. 1831, p. 100. Schinz, Syst. Mamm. I. 

 p. 354. Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. VIII. p. 319 ; 

 X. 903. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. IV. p. 287. Blytk, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XI. I. p. 609. Lesson, Manuel 

 de Mammalog. p. 156. Cantor, Catal. Malay. Mamm. 

 p. 25. 



JUL MARJAR, or Water-cat, of the Mahrattas, Sykes. 



NIRNAI, Canarese (literally " Water-dog"), Elliot. 



DATWAI BEKH, Canarese of the Wuddar tribe, Elliot. 



PANIKUTTA, Dukhani (literally " Water-dog "), Elliot. 



HUD, or HAD A, Mahratta of the Ghats, Elliot. 



ANJING-AYER, of the Malays of the Peninsula, Cantor. 



HAB. Dukhun, SyJces. Pondichery, Lesson. Nepal, Hodgson. 

 Malayan peninsula, Cantor. 



A. From Dukhun. Presented by Colonel Sykes. 

 B. 



In the Catalogue of Mammalia observed in Dukhun, Colonel Sykes 

 points out some differences between the specimens from Western India 



