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the tail being less than the cat's height at the shoulder and less than 

 half its bodj' length. 



Some j'ears ago Mr. Irwin obtained a fair-sized cat of uniform 

 colour in the jungle north of tlie railway line east of Ban Pong, 

 and which was probably the Golden or Baj- Cat ( Felis iemmin"]n ). 



A Palm Civet { Pdrfulornrus hermapJhrodiius ) cam^" to my camp 

 kitchen three times within an hour and a half one night, 1 lying in n 

 chair within 10 3\ards. On the first two occasions it was chased away 

 by a dog, and on the third it was shot. The object of its visit was a 

 CUiinese Francolin. 



The jackal is more fre({uently heard than seen ; jiersonally I 

 have only seen 3^oung animals, hut a fairly good skin ol what a])pears 

 to be an adult was shot by Mr. Butler in the Pran district. 



The red Hunting J3ug (^Ci/on. rutilaas ) occurs over the whole 

 district and appears to come duwn to the open countiy in the rains, 

 probabl}' following ttie Sandbar, lb is curious to note that the Siam- 

 ese have a similar theory to that held by the natives of India as to the 

 hunting methods of this species and, to rpiote Blanford, •' It is be- 

 '• lieved that the urine of these animals is excessively acrid, that they 

 *' sprinkle with it the bushes through which they drive their prey, 

 '•and then rush upon the latter when blinded by the pungent tluid. 

 "Another version is that they jerk the urine into their victim's e_\ es 

 " with their tails." 



• The child-like footprint of the Malay bear 1 have fre(piently 

 seen on the hills, as also his wood-boring operations in search of honey. 



The big Bamboo Rat (////. sarnatrensif!), 19 in. long, digs a 

 burrow on the hill sides but pnil)a))ly is not comnujn, as 1 have seen 

 only two ; and the biggest ot the rodents — the Porcuj'ine ( llijsifix 

 lie)t(jiil.piii<h ) — is generally distributed. 



Of the I'ngulates, a hei'd ot wild elephants were found this year, 

 in August, only one da}'s march west of Ratl)uri, and they are 

 penerally distributed, movinp- about according;- to season. 'J^hfV leed 



largely on the big h'jived bambco ( ijJ'lM'if)) ^md break down two or 

 three culms together — the bam])oos snapping with lou^l reports. 

 Rhinoceros and Tapir occasiojially visit this class of jungle during tin? 

 rains ; but tlie Sladang (n*^-3 j remains in the more open jungle 

 tlirouohout the vear, as dues the QQ Ul, which 1 have not yet seen but 



