KTXNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 57. NIO 2- 21 



Ursus tibetanus. Cuv. 



Plate II. Fig. 1—2. 



The Himalayan Black Bear only occurs in Northern Siarn, where it also seems to 

 be rather rare. 



Once when out hunting Seladang in the dense jungles at the foot of the Doi Vieng 

 Par in Northwestern Siarn one of my hunters carne across a bear but if it was this species 

 or the next is impossible to ascertain as the specimen was not shot. 



The Divisional Engineer Mr. Emil Eisenhofer had a young specimen of this Bear 

 at his bungalow at Koon Tan. It was quite tame and very amusing. It generally ran 

 about quite free in the neighbourhood though ahvays returning in the afternoon to get 

 its food which mostly consisted of rice and curry. It liked to bathe very much and had 

 a curious habit to suck its paws. Then it uttered a low grunting note. When sucking 

 it generally lay down on its back with the feet in the air. It was a good climber and 

 often made excursions up in the trees in search of ants nests, the inhabitants of which 

 it devoured with the help of its long tongue. 



Helarctos malayanus. Raffl. 



The Malay Bear also occurs in Siarn where it seems to be distributed över the whole 

 country. A native once brought me a small young which had been caught in the jungles 

 at the neighbourhood of Koon Tan. It was very fierce and tried to bite at everything. 

 I kept it for some days in a cage but one night it broke the cage and escaped. 



In the forests near Hat Sanuk I once heard the growl of a bear probablv being 

 molested in some way.by the presence of a party of langurs. In the parts of the Siamese 

 Malaya visited by the Expedition I several times struck the tracks of bears which appa- 

 rently were not uncommon at tbese localities. No specimcns were, however, obtained. 



Helictis personata. Geoffr, 



2 juv. Chieng Mai, Northern Siain, Aug. 1914. - - Noso to vent = 235 mm.; tail - 109 ram. 



During my stav at Chieng Mai at the end of August 1914 I obtained a young spe- 

 cimen of the Ferret Badger, which had been caught just outside the town. I kept the 

 small, nice little animal for some months as a pet, and it grew quite tame and would 

 follow me or my Dyak collector like a dog. When I called it, it at once came to me and 

 it seemed to like very much being patted. 1 fed it on the remaiiis of the shooten birds, 

 fruits and rice which it liked very much. It grew very slowly and one day it suddenly 

 died. 



The undefur is very soft almost wholly and of an isabelline colour. The general 

 colouration above is nearest to »warm sepia » (Dauthenay, Rép. de Couleurs pl. 305 No. 

 2); the dorsal band is almost pure white; the f rontal band and the tips of the ears are 



