564 Correspondence. 



" Irish Hare, Lepus Hibernicus ;" Inches. 



length to end of tail, 24 



head, 5 



tail, 3-J- 



ears, 4 



from heel to end of claws, 5f 



"White or Changing Hare, Alpine Hare " 



length to end of tail, 23 ! 



head, 4f 



tail, 3| 



ears, 3^ 



heel to end of claws, 5^ 



Our author next tells us of the difficulty he experienced in procuring 

 specimens of the Marmot, and says, (( We put a ball through many, 

 but did not procure them. In fact the only way to be sure of 

 getting a specimen is by sending a ball through the head. My 

 friend Ramsay procured me two in this manner." The italics are 

 our own, and serve to mark the authors English. As in speaking 

 of his " friend Ramsay" he descends to the singular number, we are 

 left to infer that, when he says " we put a ball through many" — he 

 must refer to himself and his gun ! We are moreover scarcely pre- 

 pared to admit the correctness of the phrase, " a ball through many" 

 because it would seem to argue that one ball killed them all, whereas 

 it is doubtless intended, that we should believe that several balls were 

 expended ! 



These are blemishes in which no educated writer should indulge. 



Of wild goats we are informed that the " Thar" was met with, to 

 which, with his usual negligence, the writer applies the name of " Cap- 

 ra Jemlaica." The ' ' Thar" is not a goat, but is the " Antilope 

 (Nemorhcedus) Thar" of Hodgson, known to every sportsman of the 

 western Himalayas by the names of " Eimoo" and " Surrow," while 

 in Nepaul it is called " Thar." The " Capra Jemlaica," which Dr. 

 Jameson met with, is the " Capra Jharal," vel " Capra (Hemitra- 

 gus) quadrimammis," of Hodgson, known in the wast as the " Tehr" 

 and in Nepaul as the " Jharal." The curious fact of its possessing 

 " four teats," is no new discovery of our author's, but was years ago 



