SIRCI. NEELCOOND. GAIRSAPPA. in 



specimen in any European collection 

 of the bison of "Western India. 



About the same time a flying-squir- 

 rel, full grown and in perfect health, 

 was brought in ; probably it had been 

 taken when young from the nest by 

 its captor, for it seemed perfectly 

 happy in the iron-barred cage into 

 which we put it, a cage which had 

 been prepared for a long-promised but 

 as yet unsecured specimen of the real 

 tiger-cat of that region. Both the 

 flying-squirrel and the tiger-cat are 

 animals of extreme rarity, and I have 

 never before or since seen either of 

 them, either wild or in captivity. The 

 flying-squirrel is the largest of his 

 family, exceeding in size the ordinary 

 brown and orange squirrel of the 



