APPENDIX AND ERRATA. 



Introductiou, p. iv, Hue 27, for ' some of these forms ' I'ead ' some of the 

 Ethiopian and Palsearctic types.' 



P. 1. Add to the characters of Mammalia the following : — 



The occipital condyle is double. Each ramus of the lower jaw- 

 is composed of a single piece and articulates directly with the 

 squamosal, no quadrate hone intervening. 



Pp. 7, 9. The hoolock, according to Mr. Sterndale's observations, some- 

 times drinks in the ordinary way, sometimes by dipping its hand 

 in water, and licking the drops off its fingers. 



P. 23, line 10 from bottom, /«»• ' longer ' read ' shorter.' 



P. 42. This footnote, I am informed by Mr. Theobald, is not quite 

 accurate. The collection of skulls was made over by Mr. Theobald 

 to Dr. Oldham without reservation and was presented by the 

 latter to the British Museum. The specimens are therefore 

 correctly labelled as presented by Dr. Oldham. The essential fact 

 is that the collection was made by Mr. Theobald, as stated, 



P. 50, line 9,for'heeV read ' keel' 



P. 54, lines 11 and 13 from bottom, /or ' cusp ' read ' lobe.' 



P. 60. A tiger IviUed by Mr. Iloruaday in the Anaimalai forest, South 

 India (' Two Years in the .J angle/ p. 159), measured 9 feet 8^ inches 

 long ito the end of the tail-vertebrse, and weighed 495 lb. 

 Weights ot Cooch Behar tigers varying from 450 to 493 lb. 

 are given in the ' Asian ' (April 3rd, 1891, p. 3). There can be 

 no question as to Mr. Hornaday's accuracy, and it is evident that 

 some tigers are much heavier than those weighed by Elliot and 

 Sanderson. Forsyth's estimate of 450 to 500 lb. is clearly not 

 excessive as it appeared. Tigresses 9 feet 11 inches and 10 feet 

 2 inches long are recorded by Mr, F. A. Shillingford (' Asian ' 

 Sept, 18th, 1891), 



P, 112, line 1, for ' P, zeylonensis ' read ' P. aureus.' 



P. 143. It would be better to adopt the spelling deccanensis for the 

 specific name of the wild dog. 



Pp. 182--188. Mr. Thomas has published (P. Z. S. 1889, p. 190) some 

 important notes on the characters and synonymy of different species 

 of otter. He has come to the conclusion that the type of Lutra 

 aureobrunnea is, as I suggested, a dyed skin of a .young L. vulgaris, 

 and he is convinced that the skull described by Gray as Baranyia 

 nepalensis belonged to a female L. vult/an's, dwarfed by captivity. 

 Thus these species may be entirely dismissed as fictitious, a con- 

 clusion in which I agree. The other three Indian species re- 

 main as described in the text ; but Mr. Thomas shows that the 

 clawless otter, Lutra leptonyx of Horsfield (1824), must take the 

 earlier title of L, cinerea, Illiger (1815). He applies to the otter 

 called in the present work L. ellioti the name L. bar any, F. Cuv, 

 (1823). But Dr. Scully, being in Paris, re-examined Cuvier's type 

 of L. barauf/ and found that it belonged to L. vulgaris. As, how- 

 ever, Mr. Thomas has also shown, the otter named by Dr. Gray 

 L. macrodus (P. Z. S. 1805, p. 128), and supposed to have been 

 brought from Brazil, is really the smooth Indian otter, and con- 



