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recorded by Mr. Hodgson, a notice of the novel circumstance having 

 appeared from that gentleman's pen in the April number of the 

 Journal of the Asiatic Society for 1836, nearly eleven years since! 

 and had Dr. Jameson been less prone to rely upon his own imperfect 

 knowledge, and more conversant with the labours and writings of his 

 brother naturalists in India, he would have long since discovered in 

 the pages of the same Journal, that the specific term of " Quadri- 

 mammis" was founded on the fact of the animals having " four teats !" 

 But thus it is in all his writings ; each strange or novel fact in the 

 Natural History of this country which gradually falls under his 

 observation, is at once published to the world, without allusion to 

 other writers who may have preceded him, in a manner which leads 

 many to believe, that it is a new discovery, — something with which to 

 astonish India, and raise his own name and reputation in the scienti- 

 fic world, while all the time these facts, although novel to himself, 

 have been for years well known to every naturalist in the country ! 



The " ibex' to which Dr. Jameson alludes, but to which he 

 applies no name, either local or scientific, was some four years since 

 distinguished by Mr. Blyth, as " Capra Sakeen." 



Not one bit more fortunate or correct is our author in his re- 

 marks on the bears of the Himalayas ; — he says, " one would infer, 

 that the black bear or bhallow, is confined to Thibet, seeing that it 

 is styled " Ursus Thibetanus," now it is not found in Thibet at 

 all, (so Mr. Hodgson stated many years ago !) being confined to 

 the southern side of the Himalayas. It occurs, however, every 

 where from the base of the mountains to the snows, that is, from 

 Rajpore in the Deyrah Doon and in the Doon itself, to Neetee, or 

 from a height of 1,000 to 14,000 feet." Now it will scarcely be 

 credited that, with the single exception of the non-occurrence of the 

 black bear in Thibet, the above is one tissue of errors. We have 

 for some years past been busily engaged in collecting information re- 

 garding these animals with a view to ascertain what species actually 

 occur in the tracts here alluded to, and we are therefore enabled to 

 speak positively to the fact of the existence of at least four distinct 

 species, of all of which we have possessed living individuals . 



The first of these is the "red bear of Kunawur" and "snow 

 bear" of travellers, the " Ursus Isabellinus" of naturalists. It resides 



