iv Contents. 



Page. 



V. — Register of the Rise and Fall of the Tide at Prince of Wales' Island and 

 Singapore, furnished to the Editor by order of the Government of India, — 

 October, 1840. 149 



VI. — Notes on various Indian and Malayan Birds, with Descriptions of some pre- 

 sumed new Species. By Edward Blyth, Curator to the Museum of the Asiatic 

 Society. 160 



VII. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 196 



No. 123. 



I — Notes on the Bendkar, a people of Keonjur. By Lieut. S. R. Tickell, Poli- 

 tical Assistant, S. W. Frontier 205 



II. — Captain Shortrede, in continuation of his Paper, p. 28, in No. 121 of this 

 Journal. 207 



III. — Notes regarding the Meteorology and Climate of the Cape of Good Hope. 

 By Robert Trotter, Esq. Bengal Civil Service. 211 



IV.— Report upon the Manufacture of Steel in Southern India. By Capt. Camp- 

 bell, Assistant Surveyor General 217 



V.— Report upon the Improvement of the Silk Manufactured in Mysore and the 

 Salem Districts. By Captain J. Campbell, Assistant Surveyor General. .. 218 



VI. — Manis Crassicaudata, (Auct.) M. Pentadactyla, (Ibid.) Short-tailed or 

 thick-tailed Manis. In Hindustan, generally called "Bujjerkeet." — Orissa, 

 "Bujjer Kepta" and " Sooruj Mookhee." By the Lurka Koles, " Armoo." 

 By Lieut. S. R. Tickell, Political Assistant, S. W. Frontier. .. ..221 



VIL— On the Theory of Angular Geometry. By S. G. Tollemache Heatly, Esq. 230 



VIII. — Remarks on the Essay " On the Theory of Angular Geometry." By 



Capt. Shortrede 240 



IX. — Notes on the Recent Earthquakes on the North -Western Frontier. By 

 Lieut. R. Baird Smith, Bengal Engineers. 242 



X. — Notice of the predatory and sanguinivorous habits of the Bats of the genus 

 Megaderma, with some Remarks on the blood-sucking propensities of other 

 Vespertilionidae. By Edward Blyth, Curator to the Asiatic Society. .. 255 



XL— Register of the Rise and Fall of the Tide at Prince of Wales' Island and 



Singapore, furnished to the Editor by order of the Government of India. . . 263 



XII. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society 271 



No. 124. 



I. — Notice of the Mammals of Tibet, with Descriptions and Plates of some new 

 Species. By B. H. Hodgson, Esq. Bengal Civil Service 275 



II. — Some concluding Remarks forwarded for insertion with Capt. Tremenheere's 



Report on the Tin Ground of Mergui 289 



III. — On the Cotton called " Nurma," in Guzerat. By A. Burn, Esq., Superin- 

 tendent of Cotton Cultivation, (in reply to Mr. Piddington's Queries.) Com- 

 municated from the Secretariat, General Department 290 



IV. — On an Ancient Magic Square, cut in a Temple at Gwalior. By Capt. 



Shortrede 292 



