1876.] F. S. Growse — Prologue to the Bdmdyana. 81 



Length of hand to tip o£ middle finger, ... 23 niillims. 

 „ „ foot „ „ „ „ toe, ... 43 „ 



„ „ skull with incisors, . . . .48 „ 



Interzygomatic breadth (at posterior root of zygoma), 28 „ 



The first two of the above measurements were taken by Dr. Scully on 

 the dead body of the animal and have been converted by me from English 

 inches into millimetres. 



Hab. a single male specimen was captured on June 11th, 1875, at 

 Sanju in Kashgharia, by Dr.. J. Scully, the author of a valuable contribution 

 to our knowledge of the avifauna of Central Asia, and has since been 

 presented by him to the Indian Miiseum. 



This species is at once distinguished from NesoJcia Huttoni and Spala- 

 comys ( = Nesokia) Indicus of Peters* (which latter will in all probability 

 turn out to be identical with one of the insufficiently described species of 

 the genus) by the quality of the fur, by the totally naked condition and 

 proportional length of the tail, by the greater length of the hands and feet, 

 and by the greater size and breadth of the skull, mandible, and teeth. 



P. S. — In NesoJcia Huttoni the incisors are much broader and thicker 

 in males than in females. 



8. The Frologiie to the Mdmdyamt of Tulsi Das. — By P. S. Geowse, 



M. A., B. C. S. 



(Abstract.) 



The author states in the preface that the Ram-charit-manas, common- 

 ly called the Eamayana, of Tulsi Das of Soron, was commenced in 1575 A. D. 

 at Ayodhya (Awadh). The work is not a Hindi translation of the an- 

 cient Sanskrit Eamayana. The general plan and the management of the 

 incidents are necessarily much the same, but there is a difference in the 

 touch in every detail ; and the two poems vary as widely as any two dramas 

 on the same mythological subject by two different Greek tragedians. 



The Prologue, of which Mr. Growse has given a translation, consists of 

 54 dohas, and is a valuable resume of popular Hindu theology and metaphy- 

 sics. Tulsi Das's vindication of himself against his critics is a curious fea- 

 ture. They attacked him for lowering the dignity of the subject by cloth- 

 ing it in the vidgar vernacular ; but though his defence did not please the 

 professional Sanskrit Pandits, the book is in every one's hands. 



The translation of the Prologue is submitted ag a specimen of Mr, 

 Growse's translation of the whole work, which is now in progress. 



* ' Uehor oinigo mcrkwiirdigc Niigethicre des Konigl. Zoologischcn Museums', 

 Abhandl. der Konigl. Akad, der Wisscnscli., Ikrliu, 1860, p. 139 cl scqq. 



