1846.] Rough Notes on the Zoology of Candahar 169 



Candahar and the route to that city, I shall not venture further on the 

 subject. 1 do not think, however, that any large ruminants will be 

 found even there. 



I will send you a notice of the birds collected also. 



These notes are not arranged in order, but that you can easily rectify. 

 I have been obliged to write them for you as I could lay my hands on 

 my old memoranda, which have become confused. You are at liberty 

 to describe, and name any species that may appear new. 



Thomas Hutton. 



Additions and corrections to former Notes, Vol. XIV, p. 340 et seq. 



Note 2, p. 341.— With reference to the range of the Tiger on the Himalaya, I 

 should have quoted the Rev. R. Everest's paper 'On the power of enduring cold in 

 the mammalia of hot countries,' published in An. and Mag. Nat. Hist., VIII, 325. 

 " The Tiger," remarks that gentleman, "is very scarce in the Himalaya, even in sum- 

 mer time, being too large and unwieldy an animal to follow the caprine races over the 

 precipitous ground. I, however, met with their tracks on the snow near my house; 

 and while shooting in the oak-forest, from 5,000 to 6,000 feet above the sea, had one 

 of my people carried away by one. They can go wherever the [Jerrow {Cervus Aris- 

 totelis,)] can obtain a footing, and remain on a mountain north of Mussoorie, (Nagtiba, 

 near 10,000 feet in height,) all the year round. They live principally on stags and 

 also bears." 



Note 6, p. 342. — Prof. Behn, of Kiel University, and now with the Danish expedi- 

 tion on board the Galathea, pronounces this to be distinct from the European Feli s 

 sylvestris. The state of the skin does not permit of a satisfactory description being 

 taken from it ; but it may be briefly characterized as of a light fulvous colour, mottled 

 or varied with blackish on the back, which colour forms somewhat large, transverse, 

 ill-defined stripes on the sides and limbs, and more distant spots on the under-pavts : 

 the tail tapering, with five or six rings of black, and a black tip; and the fur mode- 

 rately long and dense. Length about two feet, the tail a foot more. If new, F. 

 Huttoni, nobis. 



Note 8, p. 343. — " The Afghan pointer," remarks the late Major Brown, " has 

 been long known, having occasionally been brought down for sale by the fruit-mer- 

 chants ; but they have never been considered equal to the English dog. In Afghanis- 

 tan they are called Boders, and are used for shooting pretty generally throughout that 

 country, including Cashmere. They have rather a coarse heavy appearance, and 

 the one now described resembles a Beagle a good deal; otherwise it has much the 

 appearance of an India-bred English pointer. The hair is smooth, of a red and white 

 colour : it stands short on the legs, with a large double dew-claw on each hind-leg, 

 which has a very ugly appearance. Its ears are well hung but short; the breadth 

 at the forehead is great, but the muzzle small, and it has great natural courage. Ap- 

 parently it has never been broken in, and some large scars about the head testify that 

 it has fought some hard battles in its day." * Gunga,' in Bengal Sporting Magazine. 



Note 15, p. 346. Mangusta pallipes. Since the note referred to was written, the 

 Society has received specimens of M. Edwardsii (apud Ogilby) from Agra, which 

 render it extremely doubtful whether the Afghan species can be considered more than 

 a variety of the same : upon comparison of the skulls, however, the first false molar of 

 both jaws is much smaller in Afghan than in Bengal specimens. The last appear 



