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long, forming a long and loose niane, the hairs being quite five 

 inches long, and this nmne terminated suddenly at the junction of 

 the neck and body. 



The hairs down the throat between the head and fore limbs 

 were also very long, quite four inches. On body and limbs my 

 Javan male had no longer hair than the Society's male, and both 

 my animals had the white on cheek-tufts and beard as I have 

 described in the Society's male. 



I may remark tlmt both my animals were as thickly striped on 

 the body as the Society's male, which is a point of interest, as 

 Elliot in his ' Monograph of the Felida? ' says that this race is 

 striped as in the Indian race. 



Mr. Pocock has pointed out, when remarking on Nepal specimens, 

 that the presence or absence of a few stripes is of no subspecific 

 value, with which statement I think all accurate observers will 

 agree ; and judging from a female I saw from North Persia, I think 

 thg-t if a large number of skins were examined, the Persian I'ace 

 as a whole would not be found to be more thickly striped than 

 Felis tigris sondcdca. 



These observations were from stuffed skins and living animals 

 seen by myself, and not from descriptions by other people or from 

 figures of either race. The living specimens were compared with 

 one another within seven days. 



3. The Nesting Habits of the Tree-Frog PhjUomedusa 

 sauvagii. By W. E. Agar, M.A., D.Sc, Glasgow 

 University *. 



[Received October 16, 1909.] 



(Plate LXXXIV.t) 



I give here a few notes on the i-emarkable nesting-habits of a 

 Tree-Frog, Phyllomedusa sauvagii, which I found bi-eeding in 

 great abundance in the Paraguayan Ohaco from October 1907 till 

 February 1908 J. This frog, like other members of its genus (e. g. 

 F. jheringii, P. hypochondrialis), makes a nest suspended from 

 bushes, etc. overhanging a pool into which the tadpoles drop when 

 they are hatched. The nest of P. sauvagii, however, ditfers in a 

 noteworthy way from those of the other species of the genus 

 which have been described. 



From the examination of the struct\ire of fully formed nests 

 (PI. LXXXIY. fig. 1), one of which was found half finished, 

 the female still being engaged in adding eggs, the method of 

 oviposition can easily be deduced. First, the lower ends of a 

 number of leaves are drawn together and held so by a deposit of 



* Communicated by G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S. 



t For explanation of the Plate See p. 896. 



X The observations were made in the course of a zoological expedition to the 

 Cliaco, the expenses of which were defra3'ed by the Government Grant Committee of 

 the Royal Society and by the Managers of the Balfour Fund at Cambridge 

 UniversitJ^ 



