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In Garhwal this squirrel is very common, I should say wherever forest of 

 Q. incana and Q. dilatata abounds, though it is local to the extent that it 

 moves about wherever its food happens to be, which I believe is principally 

 acorns. 



A month ago I camped in a forest at 8,000' which was simply swarming 

 with them^eating acorns of the above two species and as I had never 

 before shot one I shot three, all males. 



I took their measurements if they are of any interest to you — 



Total length to end of tail without hair . . 32" 30" 32i" 

 Tail only without hair. . . . . . . I5i'' 14i" IV' 



Weight in lbs. . . . . . . . . . 2f 2% 2^ 



I kept the skins and two skulls and if you thought the above of sufficient 

 interest and that there should be any doubt as to its correct identification 

 I could send a skin and skull for you to see though I could not do so for 

 some months as I sent away these skins in a box to Naini Tal to await my 

 arrival. 



In Naini Tal there is another species of flying squirrel, grey all over as 

 far as I remember and less than half the size of P. albiventer. 



A. E. OSMASTOIN, 



Camp via Patjki, Gtakhwai, 

 2mh December 1914. 



[The Society's ooUector only collected in KumaoD, principally in the eastern 

 part. Mr. Osmaston has sent a skin which is certainly P. albiventer. The smaller 

 species is probably Sciuropterus fimbriahis, but no specimens were obtained by 

 Mr. Crump. — Eds.] 



No. III.— NOTES ON TIGERS IN TENASSERIM. 



In the tiger, recorded in the Tenasserim Report, a porcupine quill was 

 found, nearly four inches long, entirely embedded in the back of the head. 

 Porcupine flesh appears to be very attractive to tigers and panthers and 

 the scattered quills of examples that have been killed and eaten are quite 

 frequently found in the jungle. I have also occasionally found remains of 

 pangolins which were probably killed by the same animals. It is curious 

 how unsuspicious tigers become where they are not mu.ch shot. In the 

 present case a half grown bufli'alo had been killed and in the course of the 

 following day the carcase was entirely stripped by vultures, nothing but 

 the skeleton being left. When I arrived I found that the bones had been 

 gathered together, tied into a bundle with rope and dragged nearly a 

 hundred yards to the foot of a clump of bamboos in which a "machan " 

 had been built. The buflalo had been in open " Taungya" country and 

 there was no other cover for several hundred yards with the exception of a 

 belt of low scrub. The tiger came to the kill at about 5 p.m. and dropped 

 to a lethal bullet which entered the neck at an angle and smashed the far 

 shoulder blade. On another occasion near Bankachon two hurricane lamps 

 were left on the ground, as the moon was rising late, one on either side of 

 a kill, in order to keep the tiger away during the early part of the night. 

 When the tiger arrived, however, it dragged the kill away, evidently taking 

 no notice of the lamps. 



G. C. SHORTRIDGE. 

 Rangoon, 1914. 

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