340 Supplementary account of the Hazarahs. [No. 161. 



There is also a red flower, called Sursan, which is boiled, and the 

 strained water used as a cooling drink. 



The slaves in Afghanistan are chiefly Hazarahs, and the Afghans say- 

 it is as lawful to buy and sell them as negroes. 



N. B. — I have, I think, a good account of the Hazarahs dependent on 

 Cabool in my " Vicovitch's Cabool," a work which I hope some day 

 to have time to translate. It is composed of accounts of the different 

 districts of Cabool, drawn up at the request of that Russian agent, during 

 his residence at Cabool in the latter end of 1837 and beginning of 1838. 



Rough Notes on the Zoology of Candahar and the Neighbouring 

 Districts. By Capt. Thos. Hutton, of the Invalids, Mussoorie. 

 With notes by Ed. Blyth, Curator of the Asiatic Society's Museum. 



No. 1. Vespertilionidce. Two species of Bats are common at Can- 

 dahar, a large and a small kind ; the latter I preserved in jspirits and 

 have sent you, though I fear they are spoiled. 1 This species is very 

 common, and may be seen from February till towards the end of 



1. They arrived in excellent condition, and may be thus characterized : 



Pipistrellus lepidus, Blyth. Length three inches and one-eighth to three and a quar- 

 ter, of which the tail measures one and a half; alar expanse eight and a half to nine 

 inches : fore-arm an inch and three-eighths, or a trifle less ; longest finger two inches 

 and a quarter ; tibia half an inch ; foot and claws five-sixteenths of an inch. Ears 

 smaller than usual among the Pipistrelles, measuring from lowermost anteal base 

 half an inch, and their tips spreading to an inch asunder; tragus subovate, and curved 

 as usual. Sides of the face very tumid. General colour a light yellowish-clay, pale 

 sandy or isabella-brown ; underneath paler : the volar membrane light dusky, and the 

 inter-digital at base towards the wrist, also the tip of the wing, and a broad border be- 

 tween the leg and proximate finger, with the fingers themselves, of the same light hue 

 as the fur of the body. 



Captain Hutton's large species is not improbably the Noctulinia noctula, v. N. alti- 

 volans, (White) Gray, common in Europe; for I doubt much the distinction of Mr. 

 Hodgson's Vesp. labiata from the noctula, and a very closely allied species, if not the 

 same, has been described by Mons. F. Cuvier from Sumatra. 



The description of habitat resorted to by the third species is that of Rhinolophus 

 perniger, Hodgson, v. luctus (?), Temminck, further to the eastward. 



It may be remarked here that Elphinstone mentions Monkeys, as found only on 

 the north-east parts of Afghanistan ; a statement which does not appear to have been 

 since verified.— Cur. As. Soc. 



