1048 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL MIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXVI. 



Big Jumps. In the same issue is an extract from an English newspaper, 

 the " Observer " of March •24th, 18-28, which states that " a horse, the 

 property of Captain O'Hanlon, whilst galloping the other day, m the vicinity 

 of Cheltenham, covered, in a single bound, the enormous distance of thirty- 

 live feet and a half." 



Bears. In August 1830 the Magazine reproduces a Review, from the 

 •' London Literary Gazette," of the Field Sports of the North of Europe : 

 1827-28 by L. Lloyd, Esquire. 



The Review is a lengthy one and many anecdotes are given as to bears 

 of Scandinavia which, in the words of the Reviewer, " though doubtless 

 founded on fact are occasionally, perhaps, a little embellished." 



Of the " embellished " description is " a bear has been seen walking on 

 his hinder feet along a small tree that stretched across a river, bearing a 

 dead horse in his fore paws ! " Readers can visualize the perform- 

 ance. 



Of the " founded on fact " kind the maltreatment of an old soldier by 

 an enraged bruin is of interest with reference to a similar occurrence 

 related in our journal as having happened to a native near Mount Abu in 

 Rajputana (Volume XXIV, page 354). 



The old soldier who was so sadly mauled in 1790, was knocked over by 

 the bear which seized him with his teeth by the back of the head as 

 he was lying face downwards. The beast tore off the whole of his scalp 

 from the nape of the neck upwards so that it merely hung to the fore- 

 head by a strip of skin which was severed by the surgeon who dressed the 

 wound. 



The scalp is described, when separated from the head, exactly resem- 

 bling a peruke ! It is not related whether the man recovered from this 

 injury, but probably he did, as it is quaintly recorded that " having no hair 

 he was unable to comply with the Regulations which required it to be worn 

 in a certain form and so was discharged from the army ! " 



Bustard. A " Lover of all Sports " writes from Ahmednugger on 1st 

 August 1829 to say that between 1809 when he killed his first bustard at 

 83 paces with No. 5 shot using a double barrel gun by H. Nock, and date 

 of writing, he has bagged 961 bustard. He gives the weight of cock birds 

 as varying from 18 to 32 lbs. and a few ounces, and of hens as from 8 lbs. 

 to 15 lbs. 



Sixteen years ago the present writer saw and shot bustard in the 

 Hyderabad territory north of the Godavery River. 



Riddles. In 1831, "J. G." propounds the riddle " why are snipes like the 

 Bombay hawkers " and tells us as the answer " Because they are Chorers 

 with long bills." 



Tiger shooting. '■ Nimrod in the East ", writing in July 1831, relates the 

 doings of his party shooting in Khandeish. The bag for the period 7th 

 April to 20th May was 46 tigers, 9 bears, 1 cheeta. Four elephants were used. 

 Sportsmen who know the Tapti River country will be interested to see the 

 names of the various places at which sport was then obtained ; Shoda ; 

 Sultanpur ; Perkassa ; Tulloda ; Bamungaum ; Pimpalnair ; Moolleir. 25 

 tigers and 4 bears were killed between 8th and 28th April inclusive. 



A Tiger " Basket.^' A sporting contributor writing from Dharwar on 10th 

 January 1832, describes the use of " a tiger basket," when following up a 

 wounded beast. He describes the basket as being, perhaps, the best sub- 

 stitute for an elephant. It was about seven feet high, and large enough to 

 hold three people comfortably, and made of bamboos so strong as to resist 

 the charge of a tiger. 



On the occasion in question the writer relates that he pitched his tiger 

 basket fifteen yards from the bush in which the wounded animal lay, but 



