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Mr. Lister of Pashok tea estate, where he has lived for many years, also 

 oelieves in the existence of two species or varieties of Wild Dog, and tells me 

 that his cattle are often killed by them. Mr. Claude White, though he 

 knows nothing of the two varieties, tells me that he occasionally had his 

 cattle killed by Wild Dogs at Gangtok. It seems very desirable that speci- 

 mens of the two sorts should be procured and examined by a competent 

 naturalist, as it is possible that the smaller sort may be the Malayan 

 Wild Dog or an intermediate species. In the Calcutta museum is only 

 one specimen of the Wild Dog procured many years ago in Sikkim, which, 

 though too badly stuffed to judge from, seems to differ from that of the 

 Plains in its smaller eye and much longer fur and tail. 



Lastly, there seems to be little doubt that the Malayan bear which has 

 not, so far as I know, been recorded in the Dooars or Terai occurs in 

 Sikkim and Mr. Gent, the Divisional Sorest Officer at Darjeeling, will 

 probably be able to confirm this. 



H. J. ELWES, F.B.s. 



March 1914. 



No. II.— A RECORD TIGER. 



( With a photograph.) 



On the 11th of this month at the ' Koovat Kho,' 5 miles north of Sipri, 

 our Summer Hill Station, there fell to His Excellency the Viceroy's rifle a. 

 tiger which measured as follows : — 



Total length . . . . . . 11 feet 6 inches 



Head and Body 



Tail 



Height at Shoiilder 



Girth 



Girth of fore-arm . 



The tiger was measured along the curves of the body, of course before- 

 being skinned, in the presence of His Excellency Lord Hardinge and 

 myself and our staffs, a party of about 25 people. 



I enclose a photograph of the tiger. 



