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Catalogue of Mammalia 



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mer description of them under this title, the source of which 1 have mis- 

 laid. I cannot however find any such species indicated in Griffith's Sy- 

 nopsis, in Fischer's Mammalia, nor in any work to which I have access, 

 The length of the male is 20 inches, and the tail 21 = 41 inches : that 

 of the female 19, and the tail 20 = 39 inches. 



The colour above is a beautiful grey, caused by thf> intermixture of 

 black with white and dusky hai^s ; beneath it is white, the legs and 

 posterior half of the tail black. The male is distinguished by an irre- 

 gular patch of rufous on the sides of the neck, which in the female is 

 a sort of pale fawn. It is very gentle, timid, and may be tamed ; but 

 from its delicacy is difficult to preserve. Lives in the holes of trees in 

 the thickest part of the forest. 



45. — Hystrix Leucurus, Sykes. 



Fed Canarese 



Sirsel °) 



Sayal j^Dekhani ..... 



Sahi ? J 



Salendra Mahratta of > 

 the Ghats. J 



Saori or Chaodi of Guzerat 



46. — Lepus Nigricollis, Fr. Cuv. 



Malla, Canarese . . "sBjS <& 



Sassa, Mahratta.* 



Khargosh, Dekhani * , 



U"j J' 



47. — Manis Crassicaudata, Griffiths — M. Pentadactyla, Lin. — Pan* 

 golin a Queu Courte, Cuv. — Broad-tailed Manis, Pen. 

 Kowli Mah, Mahratta of the Ghats... 

 T'hiriya do. 



sfei 



The manis burrows in the ground, in a slanting direction, to a depth 

 of from 8 to 12 feet from the surface, at the end of which is a large cham* 

 ber, about 6 feet in circumference, in which they live in pairs, and where 

 they may be found with one or two young ones about the months of 

 January, February, and March. They close up the entrance of the 



