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tinct for many years, but awaited further information concerning its dis- 

 tribution, &c, before bringing it to notice in the Society's Journal. This 

 is a second species of Bhaloo-soor or Hog-badger, which may be desig- 

 nated — 



Arctonyx taxoides, nobis, n. s. Adult about half the size of the 

 adult of A. collaris, F. Cuv. : having a much longer and finer coat, very 

 like that of the European Badger bat softer, though not so long and soft 

 as in Taxidea ; the muzzle less broad and Hog-like than in A. collakis ; 

 the ears also are proportionally smaller than in that species ; the tail is 

 shorter ; and the colours and markings, though similar, are much brighter. 

 Greatest length of skull of a fully adult (but not aged) male of A. col- 

 lakis, 6| in. ; greatest breadth of zygomata, posteriorly, 3 T x g in. ; length of 

 bony palate 4 in. ; width at posterior great molar 1\ in. In an aged female 

 A. collaris, the same admeasurements are 6j, 3|, 3|, and 1 T V in. In a 

 fully adult female of A. taxoides, 4f , 2f, 2f and \% in. Dentition of the 

 upper jaw similar in the two species : in the lower jaw, the interspace 

 between the second and third premolars is proportionally much greater 

 in A. collaris than in A. taxoides. Lastly, the large species attains 

 with age a strongly marked sagittal crest, which I doubt is ever seen in 

 the other. Our two specimens of A. taxoides are respectively from Asam 

 and Arakan ; so that both species inhabit the same range of territory, and 

 are probably commonest in Sylhet. 



Two other skins sent by Dr. Campbell are those of the Tibetan Lynx 

 (F. isabellina, nobis, J. A. S. XVI, 1178), and of the Felis macrocelis 

 (v. macroceloides, Hodgson). Of the latter, we previously possessed two 

 mounted specimens, both sent from Darjiling ; and a skin from the Ya-ma- 

 dong mountains which separate Arakan from Pegu. I also lately saw two 

 living specimens from Upper Asam ; and have been assured, on good autho- 

 rity, that the species is not uncommon in the north of China. Mr. Hodg- 

 son states it to inhabit Tibet ; and it was originally discovered by Baffles 

 in the mountains of Sumatra. At least, no satisfactory distinction has 

 been pointed out between macrocelis of Sumatra and macroceloides of 

 Tibet ; and as the latter is positively the same from Upper Asam and the 

 mountains of Arakan, there would be nought remarkable in its range ex- 

 tending along the mountainous spine of the Malayan peninsula and that also 

 of Sumatra. A nearly affined but much smaller species, common in the 

 Malayan Peninsula, is F. marmorata ; and this also we have from Upper 

 Asam ! (J. A. S. XVII, 83.) Both are about the most eminently arboreal of 

 the Cat tribe, judging from the Asamese specimens which I saw alive, and 

 which were most graceful and accomplished climbers, with much of the action, 



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