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Zoological Notes. 

 By William T. Blanford, P. G. S. 



Cor. Mem. Z. S. Lon. 

 [Eeceived I Oth June, 1867.] 



The following notes refer chiefly to the distribution of various 

 animals in India and Burma, and to the habits of a few species. 

 There is much in them which is probably not new, more especially 

 with regard to the habits of animals. Still the subject is so interest- 

 ing, and so little studied by naturalists for want of opportunity, that I 

 trust these few remarks may have some interest. All the facts noted 

 are from personal observation, except where the contrary is stated. 



1. The Lion in India. Mr. Blyth, about 2 years since, called atten- 

 tion to the circumstance that lions had been recently met with in parts 

 of India in which the animal had been supposed to be extinct. Since 

 that time, one or two other localities have been added to the list of those 

 in which lions have been met with. A paragraph went the round of 

 the newspapers rather more than a year ago, in 1866, to the effect 

 that a lion had been killed near Re wall. An account of the death of 

 this animal was given in the new Oriental Sporting Magazine ; and 

 again in " Land and Water," for December 8th, 1866, Captain Le 

 Mesurier described the locality and gave the dimensions of the skin. 

 The animal was killed by Messrs. Lovell and Kelsey, of the Jubbulpoor 

 railway staff : it was a fine male with a full mane. The dimensions of 

 the stretched skin were the following : 



ft. in. 



From tip of nose to end of tail, 9 8 



Ditto to insertion of tail, 6 10 



Ditto to hinder end of mane, 3 6 



Across skin from fore toe to fore toe, ... 6 11 



So that the animal, when alive, probably measured rather less than 

 9 feet from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail, measured as 

 tigers usually are, that is, by carrying a tape from the nose over the 

 head and along the middle of the back. 



The mane is specially mentioned as very full, the longest hairs 

 being about eleven inches in length, the colour yellow sandy, except 

 on the crown of the head, along the crest, and across the shoulders, 

 where a blackish shade prevailed, the hairs being white, black and 



