282 Notice of the Mammals of Tibet . [No. 124, 



22. Genus Lutra, L. Aurobrunnea. This and another small species 

 of Otter are found in Tibet, but rarely, and the vast demand caused by 

 the Tibetan and Chinese fancy for furs is supplied from Sylhet and 

 Dacca chiefly, and in a less degree by these mountains, in the article 

 of Otter skins. 



URSINE. 

 Genus Ursus. 



23. Ursus Isabellinus. Fragments of a skin from the further and 

 Tibetan slopes of the Hemachal, none from the plain of Tibet, where 

 there are said to be no Bears. The species never wanders south of the 

 Kachar on this side the snows, and is represented in the central region 

 of Nipal by Tibetanus, (a species unknown not only to Tibet, but to the 

 Kachar of Nipal,) and in the southern by Labiatus. 



Anaptotheres. 



24. Genus Sus, S. Scophra, tame. Pigs of the common Indian and 

 also of one or two Chinese breeds are commonly kept and eaten in 

 Tibet, except by the religionists. No wild ones exist there.* 



Ruminantes Bovince. 

 Genus Bos. 



25. Subgenus Bison, B. Poephagus. Found in the wild as well as 

 tame state in Tibet, where the tame ones abound, and are put to all uses. 

 In Nepal they will not live south of the Kachar. f 



26. Sub-genus Bos. — Bovines other than the Yak or last named, 

 are rare in the tame state, and unknown in the wild. There are, 

 however, three tame breeds of Cows, chiefly kept by the rich for 

 their milk, whilst the poor Yak is the beast of burden, of agricultural 

 labour, and of the beef market. 



CAPRID^E. 

 Genus Pantholops. 



27. Pantholops Hodgsonii. Common all over the open plains of Cen- 

 tral and Eastern Tibet : never passes nor nears the Hemachal. 



* In the country of the Usbegs, Wild Hogs would appear to be very numerous. " De- 

 scending the eastern side of the Junas Durah," writes Lieut. Wood, "our march was 

 rendered less fatiguing by following hog-tracks in the snow; so numerous are these 

 animals, that they had trodden down the snow as if a large flock of sheep had been 

 driven over it." Journey to the Source of Oxus.— Cur. As. Soc. 



f Wild Yaks exist on the mountains towards Yarkund ; but their colour and size, as 

 well as general habits, remain to be described.— Ibid. 



