310 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXVI, 



Crocodiles : One wonders whether the eyes of the contributor of the 

 following note did not deceive him. He relates that he saw young 

 alligators {sic) entering their mothers' mouth and going into her stomach 

 and coming out again I (Vol. II, p. 1621). 



Buffalo : At p. 1873, Vol. VI, is a record of a cow buffalo kiUed in Assam, 

 norns 1 3' 6" on the outer curve and 6' b" tip to tip. 



Doe chinkara : A doe chinkara with 9" horns is recorded. This must be 

 nearly a " record." The writer has heard of an 11" head having been 

 lately obtained in Sind, but has not yet been able to procure 

 verification of this. 



At nage 1 of Vol. IV of 1871 is an interesting sketch of head of a doe 

 antelope with horns. The animal was shot near Ahmednagar. 



Red Ants : The following assertion deserves a paragraph all to itself : 

 " Castor oil smeared round the tree trunk and boughs above and below the 

 sitter in a tree will keep oS" the red ant." If this be so, it is worth knowing ! 

 M^ny a sportsman has been speedily dislodged by the vicious red ant with 

 its vitriolic bite. On one occasion the writer lost a shot at a panther solely 

 owing to the attentions of red ants. 



Snipe shooting : A Subaltern in the Arrakan Battalion won a wager that 

 he would bag 100 couple of snipe in six hours. He won his bet, shooting 

 126 couple between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. using two muzzle loaders. His 

 performance was verified by the chaplain, and a very fine performance too, 



So7ne curiosities in Natural History : The greediness and voracity of 

 eels is weU-known, but the eel of 2'-4" choked by attempting to swallow 

 a brother eel of 2'-9" must have had a most unusual twist to his appetite. 



Frank Buckland relates a fight between a scorpion and a mouse in which 

 the latter was victorious. Combats of a similar kind — Scorpion versus 

 " Jerrymundlam " — a species of spider with jaws in four segments used to 

 afford much after dinner amusement at a small military station a good many 

 years ago. The arena was the surface of table cloth covered by an inverted 

 finger bowl. Victory went either way according to the agility of the comba- 

 tants. The point of attack, as in case of the mouse, was the junction of 

 poison bag to the body, but, contrary to the experience of the mouse, the sting 

 of the scorpion used to be very speedily fatal to the spider. 



Birds : At p. 81 of Vol. VI, 1873, is a vwry useful list by A. Manson of 

 the birds of Orissa. The English and Ooria names are given. 



A list of the Orissa Mammals is at page 4-'58 of Vol. V, 1872. 



Some carefully ascertained weights of Floriken are given : 

 Four Cocks .. 18i 18^ 16| 16^ ounces. 



Four hens .. 23i 22i 21 IS" ounces. 



Mahseer Fishing : Several contributors give short accounts of the excellent 

 Mahseer fishing to be had in Assam. No doubt similar sport can be had at 

 the present day. 



nth to 15th February . . 42 fish av. 20^ lbs. 



19th to 26th December . . 28 „ 3 to 40" lbs. 



21st Oct. to 22nd Nov. (1875) 34 „ av. 31^ lbs. 



Among these were several over 60 lbs. and one of estimated weight of 80 lbs. 

 Length of this fish is given as 5'-3" with a girth of 3'-6". Calculated by the 

 usaal formula the weight was 148 lbs. 



Some Shikar I The bag made by a party of guns in the Terai in 1870. 7th 

 to 23rd April is worth recording. 



18 tigers. 

 27 buffaloes. 

 135 deer. 

 42 pigs, &c., 240 head in all. '\ 



