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they were out of sight. I dare say they fight pretty well, the same way 

 as the common wild fcoax. 



If large wild boars are fighting and anybody disturbs them, the chances 

 are for a charge at the intruder. In my opinion, it is very likely that 

 both would make straight for the man if he came unexpected quite close 

 to the battle, but if over, say, fifty yards away he will hardly be noticed 

 and if he shows himself and shouts, the Boars will stand motionless for a 

 while and then, as soon:as one of them goes away, the other will charge 

 at him and both will go away together wheeling and fighting the while. I 

 never saw or heard any reliable evidence of wild Boars killing each other 

 in a fight. I wonder if -ii is possible, given the length of the tusks and the 

 thickness of skin and fleeh and muscles on the exposed parts. No doubt, 

 they can rip open a;pony_, but what is the skin of a horse to compare with 

 that of a Boar ? 



VICOMTE EDMOND DE PONCINS. 



Feurs, Loire, Frastce, December 1913. 



No. VIII.— NOTES ON THE WEIGHTS OF ANIMALS. 



The following is a list of weights of a number of " chiefly small " Indian 

 mammals. In some instances it has been possible to weigh a series of each 

 species and so arrive at an average weight ; in others marked * only one or 

 two specimeas were weighed. 



It may perhaps be noticed that an animal's weight is often deceptive, 

 the large Indian Civet and the Mongooses being heavier than would be 

 expected in comparison with the Cats and Paradoxures. The Large Bam- 

 boo Rat is heavier than an average Cat ; while the weight of a Jackal is 

 hardly more than that of an English Fox. " The Field " Feb. 8th, 1913, 

 recording a Dog Fox from Dorset weighing 21 lbs, Blanford records the 

 weight of an Indian Fox ( Vulpes bengalensis) as being only from 7-8 lbs. 



Hylobates hoolock (the White-browed Gibbon), one male weighed 14^ lbs. 

 and two females, 13| lbs,, respectively. 



Presbytis entellus anchisen (the Southern Langur). 



Monkeys even when adult ai-e very variable in size and weight, though, 

 as a rule, the males are larger 'than the females. This species was found to 

 be heavier than any other species of Indian Monkey yet weighed, aver- 

 aging from 15-30 lbs., the heaviest male weighing 35 lbs., and the heaviest 

 female 27 lbs. 



Presbytis joJini* (the Nilgiri Langur) an adult male 21 lbs. 



Presbytis phayrei (Phayre's Leaf Monkey), 17^-20 lbs. 



Simla sinica (the Bonnet Monkey), 8-19|- lbs. 



Simia rhesus (the Bengal Monkey, from N. Shan States), 12-15^ lbs. ; th^ 

 difference in the size of the sexes was not very noticeable in this species. 



Loris lydekkerianus (the Madras Slender Loris) 9-|-12J ozs. The weight 

 of these animals was very deceptive, they were not half the weight of an 

 average bandicoot. 



Felis tigris* (the tiger), weight of a male, 9 feet 1 inch between pegs, 

 from North Kanara, 350 lbs. 



Felis affinis* (the Jungle Cat), weight of a large male, 13 lbs. 



Felis bengalensis* (the Leopard Gat), an averaged sized specimen, 6J lbs. 



Paradoxurus niger (the Indian T'cddy Cat) from.5f-8 lbs. 



Parado.iurus jerdoni (the Brown Toddy Cat), 5f-9f lbs. 



Paradoxurus hermapjiroditus (the Malayan Palm Civet), 6^-7| lbs, 



Viverra zibetha (the large Indian Civet), three specimens 18|^, 19^ and 

 20 lbs, respectively, Blanford recordc specimens weighing 25 lbs. 



