MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 88-7 



Mr. Shortridge has recorded in the Coorg Mammal Survey Report that 

 the late Mr. Graham found on March 16th a female, with an apparently 

 recently born young one of the allied species Loris malaharicus, and of the 

 present species he obtained young specimens in October, but unfortu- 

 nately no mention is made in the Report as to their approximate age. 



N. B. KINNEAR. 

 Bombay Natural History Society, 



No. II.— TIGER, FELIS TIGRIS, CLIMBING TREE. 



The following unusual though not unprecedented occurrence might interest 

 Shikari members. A wounded tiger (I suspect tigress, they are generally 

 more active) took a boy out of a tree from over 20 feet from the ground. 

 It managed to grab him by the ankle and the combined weight of the tiger 

 and boy broke the branch on which the boy was sitting and brought him 

 to the ground. The ankle was broken, a compound fracture and the leg 

 had to be amputated, but the boy, a Bhil, is doing all right. The lowest 

 claw mark on the tree is 3 feet from the ground, and the highest '2\ feet. 

 This means that the tiger not only jumped, but also actually climbed— 

 though the clmibing was only a couple of jerks upward a few feet at most, 

 just enough to reach the boy's ankle. 



This happened a few days after the beginning of the month. There was 

 only one gun — my assistant who did everything possible to get the tiger 

 but it got away. The rifle was a -450 express (not H. V.) with Eley's 

 hollow bullets — an inadequate weapon for tigers and such like animals as 

 previous experience has shown. The tiger had gone through the stops and 

 thought itself clear. The boy (he is about 16 or 17 1 think) was sitting 

 outside the line of stops — his own idea — and nobody knew he was there. 

 He thought he would be clever and stooped down to ' shoo ' the tiger back 

 which was too much for the latter's nerves. I give the account as it was 

 given to me by letter, and afterwards by word of mouth. 



Instances of the kind are sufficiently uncommon to make each one that 

 occur perhaps worth recording. Many years ago a stop was taken out of 

 a tree by a wounded tigress in Kanara. I think General Peyton mentions 

 it in the Gazetteer and I know myself of one case in which a tigress got 

 into a tree — also in Kanara to get out of the way of dogs. But this was a 

 tree with big branches low down — a Ficus, as far as I remember, and the 

 heaviest tiger could have jumped into it easily enough and in fact have 

 slept in it if he wanted to. 



G. MONTEATH, b.a., i.c.s. 



Jalgaon, East Khandesh, 

 2-ith April 1919. 



No, III.— WILD DOGS, CUON DUKHUNEN8IS, AND SAMBHUR. 



Seeing an account of the behaviour of wild dogs with a cheetal fawn in 

 the last number of the Journal reminds me of a most interesting sight I 

 saw in the Nilgiri Hills in 1914. I and a friend were fishing the Billi- 

 thada Halla river in the Kundahs, at an elevation of about 7,600', on a 

 misty morning, when suddenly the mist lifted and we found ourselves 

 close to a herd of sambhur, consisting of one stag, about 10 hinds and 

 one calf. , : 



