MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



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Old Magazines : Reference is made to some old sporting magazines, tiz. : 



Stocqueler's Bengal Sporting Magazine, 



Hume's India Sporting Review, 1847, 



Bombay Sporting Magazine, 

 and it would be of interest to collate from these, and also from the Old Series 

 of the Oriental Sporting Magazine (circulated 182-1). The writer hopes to be 

 able to do this at some future time. 



R. W. BURTON, Lt.-Col., 



Indian Army. 



Bombay, 12th April 1918. 



No. XXXIII.— NILGIRI TRAP FOR CATCHING WILD ANIMALS. 



The man in the photograph with the trap is an Irula, one of the jungle 

 tribes found on the lower slopes of the Hills in S. India. This particular 

 one comes from below Kil Kotagiri in the Nilgiris. He made these trai)s 



himself of bamboo : the size shown is for small game : such as hares and 

 jungle-fowl. They can be made large enough, I am told, for animals as 

 big as a tiger : at least the fall trap is used for them. Curiously enough 

 this tribe has no weapons for hunting : such as bows and arrows nor 

 slings. 



PHILIP GOSSE, Capt., k.a.m.c. 



PooNA, 27th July 1918. 



