MISCELLANEOUS. 191 



MEASUREMENTS OK A BOAR. 



Thk following measurements of a boar may interest the readers of the Journal. 



The animal was speared (with the Nagpore Hunt) by Mr. Paulson, of the 2nd 



Madras Lancers, on the 1st January 1890 : — 



Height ... ... ... ... ... 38" 



Girth ... ... ... <•« ... 55" 



Length ... ... ... ... ... 60 (/ 



Weight ... ... ... ... ... 350 lbs. 



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The weight seems immense. 



W. St. JOHN RICHARDSON, 



Bombay, 30th January 1890. Captain, B. S. C. 



TIGER CUBS. 



It may perhaps interest the readers of the Journal to know that on the 21st 

 instant, 1 took from inside a tigress, which J shot, five fully-formed young ones. 

 They were rather smaller than newly-born fox-terrier puppies: three were males, 

 two were females. 



Mr. C. F. Pinney, of the Rifle Brigade^ saw them at the time, and can corrobo- 

 rate what I write. 



W. St. JOHN RICHARDSON, 



Bombay, 26th May 1890. Capt. B. S. C 



SNIPE SITTING IN THE OPEN. 



Mr. Sinclair, in the last issue of the Journal, noted an instance of snipe sitting 

 in the open. During the past cold weather I found them running about like 

 sand-pipers on these occasions. Once on the edge of a jheel where they had plenty 

 of cover, I saw 6 or 8 on the ground, and twice on the brink of village ponds I 

 saw single birds feeding. In 1884 I witnessed a similar departure from their 

 usual habits near Sialkote, and in 1876 near Secunderabad I came across a large 

 wisp running about a newly-ploughed paddy-field. The latter were, if I remember 

 right, " pintails"; all those seen on this side of India are " fantails." 



G.J. RAYMENT, 

 Babugarh, N.-IV. P., 20th May 1890. A. V. D. 



PANTHERS TREE'D BY WILD DOGS. 



On the morning of the 25th March, as my friend C — and I were shooting small 

 game along the bank of the Gogra river in the Neelghal, Berar, a native shouted, 

 " Bagh hai, Sahib; Bagh hai ; " so we went up to him. In a bend of the river, 

 in a tree on a very high bank on the opposite side, was something black, and there 

 were animals moving below. 



Binoculars at once cleared the vision. There were two panthers in a " Sallai " 

 tree, one above the other, with a large pack of 10 or 12 couple of jungle dogs 

 moving about below. 



The upper panther was resting across a branch, and the lower one holding on 



