118 BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



There was a small open space opposite which they would cros3 to get 

 to the water. On they rambled, the old one leading. She is coming, 

 my own, my sweet : a branch of a pine partly shelters her, so have 

 patience, eager heart ; here she is broadside on ; bang ? 



She fell over at once, and I jumped up and gave the left barrel to 

 a youngster, but I could not see whether I hit or not. The old one 

 was still struggling, so I gave her another shot as a quietus. Send- 

 ing the men across, they had to go up higher to a snow bridge. I 

 went down the bank about 20 yards with Rehman and climbed a 

 lofty pine-tree that gave a view of the opposite thicket, as I thought 

 the other small bear might be about. We climbed alternately, hand- 

 ing the rifle up from one to the other, until a high branch was reach- 

 ed on which I perched myself, and discerned the back of a youngster. 

 Aiming carefully I fired, and turned him over, dead. Looking with 

 the glasses, I could then see dry blood on his fur ; the former shot 

 had taken effect too. In the hope of the other youngster returning, 

 I waited until it was too dark to see the foresight, when I 

 descended and rode back to camp, my ankle happily none the worse 

 for this little tamdsha. As I was still too lame to climb I decided to 

 march slowly back from Dirrell. On the way I looked into Loyen 

 Harda nullah for a couple of days. There were plenty of fresh bear 

 pugs, but I saw no bears. However, I got two shots at musk deer, 

 and secured both, two young males. 



SHORT NOTES ON THE ODORIFEROUS GRASSES 



{ANDROPOGONS) OP INDIA AND CEYLON, WITH A 



DESCRIPTON OF A SUPPOSED NEW SPECIES. 



By Mrs. J. O. Lisboa. 



(Read at the Society s Meeting on 7th August 1889.) 



There is great uncertainty about the number of odoriferous 

 grasses growing in India, on account of the confusion in which the 

 subject has been involved by various botanists and writers, who, 

 overlooking varieties caused by cultivation or otherwise, have un- 

 consciously multiplied species. 



This can only be cleared up by a practical botani st who has 

 travelled all over India and Ceylon, or had before him a collection 

 of plants from these countries. There is no doubt that when he 



