MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 72^ 



The following are the measurements I took almost immediately afterwards: — 



You will notice that in the male the girth of the forearm and length of hind 

 lee are the same, 10" ; but in the female the girth of the forearm is one inch 

 less than the length of the hind leg. 



The next night I sat up again over the same kill, but as this was my 

 third night up I was very sleepy indeed. I had been unable to sleep during 

 the day on account of the heat ; consequently at 9-30 p.m. I fell asleep 

 and did not wake till exactly midnight. I then discovered the second hind leg 

 of the goat had been eaten and that it had also been moved about 4 yards ; 

 I managed to keep awake after this, and at 12-58 a panther came and started 

 to eat, but I missed both barrels, and he never came again, and at 5-45 a.m. I 

 got down from the machhaan. 



This, I think, accounts for five panthers at one kill in one night. 



There were the two I shot ; and the half-grown cub and the wounded one 

 (4) which cannot have been either of those I shot later, as both of them had 

 only one wound ; also there was the one that came first of all at 8-3 p.m. Now 

 this may possibly have been the one I wounded later, or one of those I shot, 

 but if either of these be the case, how can the one that came the second night b« 

 accounted, as it was much too big to be the half-grown cub ? If it had 

 anything to do with the killing of the goat it would in all probability have come 

 the first night, or else it shows that panthers will eat carrion. It may possibly 

 have been the wounded one, but as it was only evidently slightly wounded it 

 would be quite able to kill food for itself. On the second night it did not 

 appear to have anything the matter with it, and did not walk at all lame. Of 

 course it is well known that panthers will return to a kill after having been shot 

 at from a machhaan, but I did not know that a wounded beast would do so. 



M. YOUNG, 

 York and Lancashire Regiment. 



Mhow (C. I.), May 1904. 



No. XXXII.-A VIPERINE SNAKE WHICH IS OVIPAROUS. 



I believe it is generally accepted that the Vipers are viviparous. Now I have 

 had sent to me by Father Bertrand, of the Theological Seminary at Kurseeong, 

 a cluster of some 10 eggs, from 2 of which the: young ones issned forth white 



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