816 Notes on a curious species of Tiger or Jaguar. [No. 141. 



of its innocuous habits, of its feeding almost entirely on birds, (caught 

 in trees !) and on the poultry of the villagers, and of its becoming 

 readily and permanently tame after capture. 



The Lepchas here call the animal " Pungmar," and the Bhotias " Zik ;" 

 their accounts are widely different to the above They describe it 

 as an uncommonly fierce and wary animal, difficult to approach, and 

 dangerous to attack, from its invariably turning on the assailant if 

 wounded. It is a rarer animal than the " Sejjiak" or Leopard ; but it 

 is to be found in the vallies lying north of Darjeeling, in dense jungle, 

 chiefly by the banks of rivers ; the Ranget, Roongnoo, &c. affecting low 

 places in preference to mountain tops. It approaches the villages of 

 the Bhotias and Lepchas sometimes, and kills goats, pigs, &c. ; of its 

 predeliction for poultry, nothing is said by them ; and of its propen- 

 sity to climb trees, I could gather nothing satisfactory. The Lepchas 

 affirm that it has been seen on trees, but that it ascends them in play, 

 and not to seek food. Indeed the notion of such a large animal catching 

 birds on trees, appears ridiculous. Altogether the accounts as re- 

 ceived by me, of the " Pungmar" tally more with the description (as to 

 disposition) of Felis Nebulosus, the " Rimau Maug" of the Sumatrans, 

 as cursorily given in the work above referred to. 



M. Stanislas Julien on the Study of the Chinese Language. Translated 

 for the Journal of the Asiatic Society. By Henry Piddington, 

 Sub- Secretary, Asiatic Society. 



The Asiatic Society has just received from its author M. Stanislas Julien, a work 

 entitled "Exercises Pratiques d' Analyse de Syntax et de Lexigraphie Chinoise," 

 of which the subject is a critical examination of thirteen lines of a translation of 

 a notice in the work of the Chinese traveller and author Hionen-tsang upon India, 

 by M. Pauthier. 



In this translation, M. Stanislas Julien detects ninety-four faults in thirteen lines ! 

 and his criticism is approved by the first Chinese scholars of England, Germany 

 and Russia. His work is dedicated to his friend, Mr. Morrison. With this controversy 

 we have nothing further to do than that it may serve to put us a little on our guard as 

 to what some Chinese translations may be;* but the introduction to M. Julien's 

 paper is so remarkable, as containing the opinions of a first rate Chinese scholar and a 



" As for instance, some which were copied from the Canton Register into the Calcutta papers 

 ahout a year or more ago, in which, in a single proclamation, half a dozen common English, and 

 I believe some Latin quotations were inserted, and this we were gravely told, was a translation 

 from a Chinese State Paper — H..P. 



