2314 The Zoologist — October, 1870. 



The next place of interest is Anger, in the mainland of Java : here 

 the Javanese were offering for sale their multifarious wares; in one 

 place a hideous baboon sat munching a banana and watching with 

 mischievously twinkling eyes every movement of those around. Lots 

 of minor monkeys were grinning, chattering, and either quarrelling 

 among themselves or stealing everything within their reach ; lories 

 and love-birds; squirrels and Java sparrows; water-tortoises and 

 pythons ; civet cats and chevrotins ; intermixed with yams and cocoa- 

 nuts, pine-apples, bananas and shaddocks. Here the epicure might 

 provide himself with the finest fruits, here the naturalist might select 

 the choicest animals. Our traveller, leaving this mercantile station, 

 ventured a little way into the neighbouring jungle to satisfy his 

 curiosity and to collect beetles : the thermometer stood at 90° in the 

 shade, and oppressed by heat and thirst he stooped to drink at a 

 trickling rivulet, when he saw under his very nose an object that made 

 him start, the fresh imprint of a tiger paw so large that his outspread 

 hand could only just cover it. He afterwards learned that two of the 

 neighbouring villages had just been depopulated by these formidable 

 animals. Mr. Adams took pains in the course of the wandering to 

 obtain some statistics as to the northern range of the tiger. Atkinson 

 says it has been killed in Siberia, having crossed the Kirghis Steppe 

 into the Altai mountains ; and Mr. Adams found them tolerably 

 abundant, and the skins very cheap, at Lias-ho, in the province of 

 Liau-tung in Manchuria. In this temperate climate the skin of the 

 tiger is warmer and more woolly than in the hotter climate of India : 

 Ihev are obtained in this way : the Manchu Tartar digs a wide deep 

 ditch of a circular form, leaving a little island, as it were, in the 

 middle, in which he stations himself as a bait. The ditch is then 

 covered over artfully with brushwood, and the tiger, perceiving the 

 man, makes a spring, and falling short is impaled on spears placed 

 ready to receive him, or shot by the hunter. I cannot say that I 

 much envy either the tiger under such unpleasant surroundings or 

 the hunter who serves as live bait. 



In diflferent places two of that singular animal the pangolin came 

 under the notice of the traveller, and as I suppose (ew of my readers 

 have enjoyed an opportunity of seeing the living animal I think the 

 doctor's portraiture drawn from the life can scarcely be unacceptable : 

 so here it is. 



"Two living specimens of the scaly ant-cater [Matiis javanica), 



