MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



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short band of chestnut and black feathers commences behind the ear-coveris, 

 and terminates half way down the neck, the remainder of the neck being 

 black and white, like the throat. Wing 5-9, tarsus 1*7. 



The type specimen was obtained by Mr. A. C. Baseman at Tiddim, near Fort 

 White, Chin Hills, on the 3rd of December, 1905, and was forwarded to Mr. 

 E. W. Oates, by whom it was presented to the British Museum. The present 

 form takes the place of A. torqueola to the south of Manipur, and has been 

 procured at Falam by Mr. P. F. Wickham, while a number of examples have 

 been forwarded by Colonel G-. Rippon from Mt. Victoria. 



No. VIII— A MOUSE-HARE. 



Colonel A. E. Ward will have already made the readers of this Journal 

 familiar with the scientific names and descriptions of several of the varieties 

 of the small animal, found high up in the Himalayas, and commonly known as 

 the mouse-hare. In the interest of the few, who care for such small game, I 

 send this note about one I recently captured in a remote part of the Chamba 

 State, West Himalayas. One afternoon in May, while watching for bears, I 

 saw among some large blocks of rock above a stream a small animal dart 

 across from below one block to another. I thought at first it was a rat ; but 

 when it shortly afterwards reappeared I noticed it had no tail and I then felt 

 certain it must be what I had long been looking for — a mouse-hare. The spring 

 was unusually late, and as the hill sides were generally snow-covered, I could 



