MAMMAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 511 



Hystrix leucura, Sykes. 

 The Indian Porcupine. 

 (Synonymy in No. 1.) 

 1 S (skull only). Makut, S. Coorg. 



{See also Reports Nos. 1, 2, 5 and 10.) 



Quils brownish black with white bands on them, quills of tail white ; the 

 dark-brown crest bristles are also sometimes tipped with white. Weight 

 from 20-30 lbs. 



■' Fairly plentiful but not easy to find here in the thick hill forests that 

 they frequent. Porcupines are very destructive to rubber plantations, and 

 if they occur in a district where rubber is planted, unless the trees are 

 wired in, they get eaten down in large quantities. 



Many fallen quills were seen but they were all normal in colour ".— 

 C4. C. S. 



Vernacular name: — Mullhundhi. 



Lbpus nigricollis, Cuv. 

 The Black-naped Hare. 

 (Synonymy in No. 5.) 



4 5 $ (1 imm) (2555 no skull), Virajpet, S. Coorg. 

 ■IS. -5 $ 2 Haleri, N. Coorg. 



(*S'ee also Reports Nos. 5, 6, 8 and 9.) 



General colour rich glossy rufescent brown interspersed with black, with 

 a distinctive black patch on the back of the neck, grey on the rump and 

 sides of the face, white on the undersurface ; limbs rufous. Head and 

 body about 20 inches, tail 3 inches. 



" Plentiful both in forest and cultivated country". — G. C. S. 



Vernacular names: — Mola KhujSTDILI. 



BiBOS GAURUS, H. Sm. 



The Gaur. 

 ( Synonymy in No. 6. ) 

 2 $ $, (skulls only) Nagarhole, S. Coorg. 

 [See also Report No. 6.) 



" Only occurring in the remoter parts of Coorg. Very much overshot in 

 the few localities here where they still exist." — G.C. S. 



Vernacular name : — Kati. 



Antilope cervicapra, L. 



The BlacJc Buck. 



(Synonymy in No. 5.) 



1 (no skull) albino. Chamrajnagar, S. Mysore (Van Ingen). 



{See also Reports Nos. 1, 5 and 10.) 



" The black buck probably never wanders inside the boundaries of Coorg, 

 although together with the four-horned antilope it occurs in the more open 

 parts of Southern Mysore. 



The specimen, sent by Mr. Vanlngen, is a fawn of what would have 

 eventually become an albino. Albino black buck are bred in the Mysore 



