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rong, or Ictides ater of Temminck. The Burmese name of 

 this animal is stated by Captain McLeod to be Myouk-kya, 

 or Monkey Tiger ; it is described as living in the jungles, and 

 very seldom seen. 



" The present specimen/ 5 says Capt. McLeod, " was shot 

 at the summit of a tree ; the natives say, it is generally seen on 

 trees ; that it twists its tail round a branch to give impetus to 

 its spring, and then throws itself on its prey, generally 

 monkeys, (whence its name,) and with it falls to the ground. 

 Its head is said to be particularly hard, and that it cannot be 

 killed by blows inflicted on it. The present specimen had 

 several blows inflicted on it with a heavy bamboo, but not ap- 

 parently to its injury " A third animal in this collection is 

 also of much interest, the Gulo Urva of Mr. Hodgson • its pre- 

 sence in the Tenasserim Provinces, indicates a more wide and 

 extensive habitat than that at first ascribed to it. This animal 

 was noticed by Mr. Hodgson in 1835, as an inhabitant of the 

 middle region of Nepal; in 1837 it became one of Mr. 

 Hodgson^s new genera of Nepal animals, to which perhaps 

 other species of Herpestes, having bushy tails, might also 

 be added. 



I should here mention, that searching for Col. Farquhar^s 

 drawing of Rhizomys Sumatrensis, already referred to,* I found 

 in the Society a drawing of a bushy tailed Herpestes, differing 

 merely from Mr. Hodgson^s Gulo Urva, in having the tail 

 of one uniform colour with the body, without the yellow 

 tip. There is no name or letter on the drawing to shew 

 from whence it came, and to prevent its following the fate of 

 Colonel Farquhar's Rhizomys, we here (plate xiii^ f. 1 ;) afford 

 a copy of it.-j- 



In our last we had merely time to acknowledge our obliga- 

 tion to Lieutenant Hopkinson, Junior Assistant to the Com- 



* Vide Lin. Transactions, vol. xiii. p. 25-6. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1830, p. 96. 



t References to Plates. Fig. 1, PI. xiiif. drawing of Herpestes in the Asia- 

 tic Society. Fig. 2, Gulo Urva, Hodgs. specimen from Moulmein, with 

 the feet of the same. PI. xiv. Rhizomys cinereus, J. M. from Moulmein. 



