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5,000 feet, 65 miles west of Kiiidat, it measured, H & B 1111, Tl. 

 809, Hf. 241, Ear 75mm. 



VernaciTlar name : Chet Thit (Burmese)."— J.M.D.M. 



Felis nehulosa.—'' I have heard of one brought into Tamu from 



Manipur, of a second shot near Maingyaung, east of the river, and 



of a third picked up dead and decomposed in the lower Chindwin. 



Vernacular names for all cats: Taw Ohaung (Burmese); SuNG 



Ak (Chin.)"— J.M.D.M. 



Felis aijinis. — " Common. I have seen only one." — J.M.D.M. 

 OiLon duhhtmensis.--" A wild dog is pretty numerous. I have 

 seen a pack of 9 chasing a herd of pig, and have seen two beasts 

 quite close when I had no gun handy. On two or three other occa- 

 sions I have seen packs at a distance ; I cannot be certain, but I 

 think they are C. dukliunensis, as I compared them at the time to a 

 smallish fox hound. Mr. Nixon, I.F.S., saw a pack hunt a serow almost 

 to his feet, and 1 have twice picked up skulls of serows killed by wild 

 dogs. In one fortnight I saw, and heard from my coolies, of 9 

 sambhar all freshly killed by wild dogs. At Ahlaw, in the Kabaw 

 Valley, I once came on 6 beasts engaged in cutting out a buffalo calf 

 from the herd, in paddy fields, within half a mile of the village. 

 Wild dogs do immeasurably more damage to game even than natives ; 

 even bison appear to leave the district after dogs have been there a 

 week, while sambhar and barking deer go in a day or two. 

 Vernacular nana e : Taw Quay (Burmese)." — J.M.D.M. 

 EelicUs ]3er sonata (?). — " I have seen a beast which I am nearly 

 sure was this." J.M.D.M. 



Acanthion sp. — " A porcupine occurs, I have heard it, seen quills 

 and tracks."— J.M.D.M. 



Meplumts.—" Only occur in the Chin Hills at the lower levels up 

 to 2,000 feet. In the Chindwin they are fairly common. A tame 

 elephant belonging to the Bombay -Burma Trading Corporation once 

 gave birth to a calf within 300 yards of my camp and for several days, 

 every evening, 4 or 5 females, who were at the time without mater- 

 nal responsibilities, came down to look on, with much grunting and 

 squealing. The calf could walk in two days, it fed by the mouth 

 and seemed to find its trunk a very useless and inconvenient 

 appendage. The mother was quite docile. 



Vernacular name : Sm (Burmese). " — J.M.D.M. 

 Rhinoceros sp. — " I have seen tracks, on the east side of the 

 Kabaw Valley at 3,000 feet and have several times heard of them 

 from villagers. 



Vernacular name : Chaw (Burmese)." — J.M.D.M. 

 Bihos gaimis. — " Fairly common in the Chindwin, but very scarce 

 in the Chin Hills, where it is persistently hunted. 



Vernacular name, Zang Shiel or Yang shiel (Chin)." J.M.D.M. 

 Bihos frontalis. — " Kept domesticated. 



