732 Note on a species of Arctonix from Arracan. [Aug, 



Liinta, bow 

 Pachh, cotton 

 Yul, wool 

 Sai, thing 1 

 Tish, bitter 

 Sadal, cold 

 Gand, large 

 Lagar, thin 

 Perana, coat 

 Kimanik, cloak 

 Shuwatik, bitch 

 Machh, fish 

 IHiarta, ass 

 Lawich, jackal 

 Chappa, left 

 Nirgirch, sunset 

 Mae, raoon 

 Tal, heavens 

 I'm, snow 

 Asal, hail 

 Lad, false 

 Kam, little 



Lau lau jhala 



To, dust 



Bhojil, earthquake 

 Kan, arrow 

 Kh&b, scabbard 

 Siichak, needle 

 Kumar, deep 

 Lasarra sweet 

 Garm, hot 

 Pinja, flower 

 Dashik, grapes 

 Ashh&i, apricot 

 Manai, apple 

 Oba, upon 

 Ebat, now 

 Pachaleva, cooked 



Minai, come 

 Nepa, sit 

 A'ya, eat 

 Amlaja, run 

 Virambu, walnut 

 Baho, quince 

 Amirik, pomegranate 

 Akhud, below 

 Pachada, after 

 Khkm, raw 

 Tada, deer 

 Saro, mule 

 Avta, hunger 

 KosAada, shoes 

 Bolla, deaf 

 iThota, lame 



Tena nami kuss} 

 Kina pagi 

 Tu chude ai 

 Sabak mare 

 A'u pachale 

 Wary acha 

 hikhan kega 

 Ema sardar kyas 



Shing, horn 



Ledhi, female deer (roe) Chiya, well 



Kadaga, language Witai, go 



Tena, thirst Ura, stand 



Anda, blind Pe, drink 



Gonga, dumb 



Beda, mad 



Go slowly, 



What is your name ? 



Where are you going ? 



Where is your residence ? 



Learn your lesson ? 



Cook bread. 



Bring water. 



Write. 



Who is your ruler ? 



Note. The above vocabularies seem to have been all thrown out of arrange- 

 ment in the copying, but we have not time to attempt their rearrangement. — Ed. 



VII. — Note on a species of Arctonix from Arracan. By Dr. G. 

 Evans, Curator As. Soc. Museum. 



The singular and rare little animal presented this evening by Captain 

 Paterson of H. C. brig Krishna, I have reason to believe is the 

 Bali Souar or sand hog of the Hindus, the type of a new genus of 

 Mammalia to which M. F. Cuvier has assigned the name of Arctonix. 

 The description given of A. Collaris by M. M. Geoffroy, Saint 

 Hilaire and F. Cuvier, Livraison 51 erne Histoire Naturelle des 

 Mammiferes will most probably apply to this our living specimen. It 

 is as follows. " In habit this animal may be compared to a bear 

 furnished with the snout, eyes and tail of a hog. Of its dentary system 

 nothing is known, except that it possesses six small incisors of equal 

 length, and its canine teeth are long, and that these are immediately 

 succeeded by flat molar teeth which appear to be larger as they are 

 more advanced in the mouth. Its movement is plantigrade, and its 



