INTRODUCTION. XXI 



Zoological Garden of Calcutta received from Mr. Rivers Thompson, c.s.i., then 

 Chief Commissioner of British Burma, a living example of TJrsus tibetanus from the 

 hilly region at Tonghoo, in nearly the 19° parallel of latitude; and from this 

 circumstance I, am disposed to conclude that my observation in the Kakhyen hills 

 was correct. This species has been recorded by M. L'Abb6 A. David from Shensi, 

 and by Swinhoe from Hainan and Formosa.^ 



The tiger and leopard are prevalent at Bhamo, and equally so in the elevated 

 valleys about Sanda and in the mountain ranges to the east, whereas in the Kakhyen 

 hills the black variety of the latter animal is found; and associated with these 

 species is another but much smaller cat, F. bengalensis, and which occurs in the 

 valleys of the elevated region about Momien and also at Bhamd. The Himalayan 

 species of Prionodon also occurs in the Kakhyen hills, and associated with it is 

 that widely distributed species Viverricula malaccensis. 



At Momien, which is enclosed by rounded hills, covered only with grass and 

 patches of bracken, I observed a small yeUow fox ; but as I have not been able 

 to determine the species satisfactorily, having obtained only one young individual, 

 I have omitted the species from the text. In association with it, there is a hare, 

 which, for a similar reason, I have not been able to determine specifically. 



In the region of Teng-yue-chow, the Himalayan and Chinese species of Goat 

 Antelopes, N. bubuUna and N. edwardsi, would appear to meet ; and on the very high 

 mountain ranges to the north of Teng-yue-chow that Palseartic type Moschus occurs. 

 Genus porcinus is prevalent at the base of the Kakhyen hills, and on them the cry 

 of the barking deer, C vaginalis, is a familiar sound. 



Wild elephants, the Singphos or Kakhyens assert, are occasional visitors to the 

 mountains, ascending from the neighbourhood of Bham6 to an elevation of 6,000 feet. 



The Shans of Bhamd are familiar with the existence of a two-horned E-hinoceros, 

 which occurs on the right bank of the Irawady, in the district of Mogoung ; but I 

 could not obtain any rehable information to serve as a guide to the identification of 

 the species, whether it might be R. niger, or the species which I some years ago 

 described as JR. sumatrensis of Bell, but which Dr. Sclater considered to be a distinct 

 species and named R. lasiotis. B. sumatrensis, as ixnderstood by me, occurs at 

 Chittagong, and is apparently the animal found in the valleys of Tipperah and 

 Munipur to the north, and therefore is in aU likehhood the species said to occur at 

 Mogoung. 



' The bear referred to by Blyth in his Catalogue of the Mammals and Birds of Burma under the name of U. nialmianus 

 as occurring at Tonghoo, on the authority of Mason, is doubtless TJ. tibetanus, which would also appear to extend north- 

 wards through the Himalaya to Baluchistan and to the confines of Sind and Persia, from whence Blanf ord at first 

 described it as a new species, TJ. gedrosianus (Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, Vol. XLVI, Pt. II, 1877, p. 317), afterwards, 

 however, acknowledging the specific identity of the Baldchistan black bear with U. tibetanus. 



