1150 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCLETY, Vol. XX. 



No. VI.— ABNORMAL NUMBER OF YOUNG IN A MARKHOR. 



Whilst up in the Chilias district I was in the Rakhiot nullah shooting. 

 On the 21st June I was on the hill-side between Rakhiot and Jalipur 

 Nullahs which overlooks the Indus, trying for a good Oorial. I got a nice 

 one of 28-| inches and later whilst searching for others saw a very interest- 

 ing sight. This was a female Markhor, sitting on a high rock in the 

 middle of the fir jungle, with three small kids lying beside her. I watched 

 them for a long time. Every now and again the old female would get up 

 and look round for danger, when the little kids had a great struggle so as 

 not to be left without a drink of mother's milk . I was well above them 

 and so was able to approach moderately close without being seen. I was 

 very supprised to see them where they were as the ground was not like 

 markhor holding ground though there was some about a mile and a half 

 further along the hill-side. 



The local people I had with me were both well known local shikaries and 

 said that it was the first time they had either seen or heard of markhor 

 producing three kids at one time though tame goats not infrequently do so. 

 They also had never seen markhor so far outside the nullah and away 

 from their usual haunts. 



Jhansi, J. A. POTTINGER, 



August 16t7i, 1910. 30th Punjabis. 



No. VII.— NEW INDIAN BATS. 



In the Annals and Magazine of Natural History for December 1910 Dr. 

 Knud Anderson describes ten new Fruit-bats among which is a racial form 

 of cynopterus sphinx=C. marginatus of the Fauna of B. I., the short-nosed 

 Fruit-bat. This race Dr. Anderson calls C. sphinx gangeticus destinguishing 

 it from C. S. sphinx- by its larger size. He remarks that this bat C. sphinx 

 " falls into two well-marked races. The smaller C. s. sphinx ranges from 

 Ceylon northward along the western side of the Peninsula at least as far 

 as Bombay, and along the whole of the eastern side to Bengal, Assam, and 

 N. Siam (in Asam and N. Shan it meets the extreme northern outpost of 

 C. brachyotis angulatux). The larger C. s. gangeticus is probably generally 

 distributed over the North- Western and Central Provinces of India, but so 

 far identified only from Lucknow and Nasik." 



The type was collected by Major A. S. Begbie at Lucknow and was 

 presented to the British Museum by the Society. 



In the same magazine for Februarjr 1911 Mr. Oldfield Thomas gives the 

 description of new species of long-eared bat collected by C. A. Crump at 

 Leh, Ladak. The bat is named Plecotus wardi after the donor Col. A. E. 

 Ward. It is distinguishable from P. homochrous and P. puck by a broader 

 skull and paler colour. 



