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" It builds a very compact nest of bamboo leaves and grass, lined 

 with fine roots, and is suspended between two twigs forming a fork, 

 generally about fifteen feet from the ground. 



The number of eggs is three, and they vary a good deal. They 

 are generally of a light salmon colour, with bold blotches of dark 

 lilac-brown scattered over the broader end. They are fairly glossy, 

 many resemble much some types of (BucJianga atra) the Common 

 King Crow, but are larger and more glossy." They average 1*14 

 inches in length by about 0"82 in breadth. 



Nassick Ghdts, May to July. J. Davidson, C. 8. 



Khanbari Ghdts, Khandesh, July. Bo. 



THE MAN-EATING TIGRESS OF MUNDA.LI. 



Since Mr. Reginald Gilbert read a paper on Man-Eating Tigers, 

 before the Members of the Society, on 4th September 1889, the 

 subject has been freely discussed, and we are consequently glad to 

 reprint the followiug account of the destruction of a veritable Man- 

 Eating Tigress, which appeared in the Indian Forester for July 1889 

 (Vol. XV., No. 7):— 



" Our readers will forgive us for being so late in the day with our 

 account of this brute, which had been for more than 12 years the 

 scourge of the hills immediately north of Chakrata. The present 

 paper was, however, already in print before our June Number issued 

 from the press, and it was only want of space that prevented its 

 publication in that Number. 



" According to the information we have been able to collect, our 

 tigress seems to have been first heard of in 187G. Throughout her 

 career as a man-eater, .she confined herself to a narrow beat hardly 

 24 miles from end to end, ranging from the Hama Sarai group of 

 villages in the Jumna Valley to the spur immediately overlooking 

 Chakrata. 



"After leaving the Jumna Valley she came up to Lokhiir at the top 

 of the spur just above Rama Sarai. From Lokhar she followed up 

 to the other end of her beat, the main ridge which forms the water- 

 parting between the Jumna and Tons rivers. She never left this 

 ridge or its vicinity to go down to the numerous villages which skirt 

 the valleys of the several mountain streams that run down into the 



