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Rhesus monkey. Bundur. " Simla rhesus.'" This species I saw repeatedly 

 during the month of February when the snow was five or six inches deep at Simla, 

 roosting ? in the trees at night, on the side of Jaku and apparently regardless of 

 the cold. It is somewhat hazardous to walk below a troop of these latter animals, 

 for in searching for acorns and other seeds, they turn up the stones which are apt 

 to come tumbling down on ones head. 



The Langoor ascends and descends, from and into the khads by prodigious 

 leaps from tree to tree, while the less timid Rhesus confines itself to the ground 

 and mounts the trees only when pursued or to roost at night. 



Flying Squirrel. Pteromys. 



These are beautiful animals and leap with amazing agility from tree to tree. 

 Their food consists chiefly of the young leaves and tender shoots of the oak tree. 

 They breed in the holes which they gnaw in the trunks of trees and generally 

 have one young one at a birth. When at rest they wrap themselves partially up 

 in the lateral membranes and curl their long bushy tails around their heads, like 

 the common squirrel of Britain. They are easily tamed when taken young. I 

 have offered them various kinds of food, such as grain, wheat, leaves of trees, 

 &c. but although they will eat attah cakes the favorite food appears to be oak 

 leaves. When feeding, they sit up on the hinds legs and hold the food in the 

 forefeet like a squirrel. 



I have a living specimen which was brought to me from Ndgkunda, along with 

 its mother when quite small in the month of February, so that it must have been 

 born in the latter end of January. There is another species much smaller and 

 of a gray color sometimes met with in the interior, but fi om the few specimens 

 brought in, it appears to be scarce. 



The present species is of a deep red brown, interspersed with gray hairs ; feet 

 and tip of the tail black. Under parts pale orange. 



I have no descriptions to refer to and therefore have not named it. 



Wild goat. Jehr. Capra jharal — Hodgson. 



We saw none of these animals during our trip, although our shikaris told us 

 we crossed some of their haunts. 



The Ghoral, (Antilope Goral,) and KuJcur or Barking &eer,(Cervus Ratwa,) are 

 also met with at Simla and the interior. During the winter of 1835-36, a great 

 number of the latter animals were killed in the snow, which lay in the month of 

 February at Simla six to eight feet deep, and had not all melted away in shady 

 places until the end of May ! 



Wild sheep. Bharal. Ovls ammon. 



This animal is only found in the most inaccessible places among or verging on 

 the snows. Their skins are brought down by the Tartars to the Rampur fair 

 in November, and sold at about a rupee a piece. Their horns are presented to 

 Devi and are hung up at the temples, or placed upon the cairns alluded to in the 

 journal. 



Musk deer. Kaslura. Moschus moschiferus. 



These animals are found in the depths of the forest from Muhassti far into the 



interior. They appear to be shy and solitary animals, lying singly in the most 



retired places, usually near some steep overhanging rocks. On being disturbed 



they bound away down the khads with great swiftness. The animal is of a dark 



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