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twigs and I did not succeed in bagging one. I had only a hollow-fronted 

 bullet by Kynoch & Co. with me, besides a 10-bore rifle. After the third 

 shot they went away and the shikari said would not return at all to 

 this kill. Had I waited a longer time I could no doubt have had a 

 shot in the more open forest near to the pool, but I could not do so 

 being far from camp and late. I then examined the carcass of the dead 

 sambar and found it quite fresh, so decided to take some of the meat and also 

 have it skinned. 



The animal seemed to have been killed by being seized by the throat, the neck 

 appearing almost severed from the body, and a large piece of the wind-pipe torn 

 right out and flung to one side. The latter measured nine inches in length. The 

 testes I found intact and untouched ; the hind parts also had not been 

 mauled, from which I came to the conclusion that the sambar had been 

 suddenly seized while drinking at the pool and not chased and run down, as in 

 the latter case the quarry is invariably emasculated and pieces torn out of the 

 inner parts of the thighs, where the dogs who have failed to catch the testes 

 have taken pieces out of the first part struck with their teeth. The ears 

 I found untouched, as also the head, except that the velvet of the horns had in 

 two places been gnawed through, no doubt as the animal lay on its side after 

 death. The s;imbar was beautifully disembowelled, and the whole of the 

 viscera carried away some distance from the pool, the carcass being partly 

 skinned, one leg only being torn off and missing. The skin however when taken 

 off made a perfect pelt, so neatly had the dogs done their skinning. 



From splashes of blood high up on the trees near the pool, and from the 

 churned up state of the pool itself, I should think that the struggle that went 

 on in the early hours of the morning must have been both fearful and pro- 

 longed. The shikari said the beast had been knocked down about 5 a.m., and 

 told me that there were two packs of dogs in the forest' — one frequenting the 

 Poonassa and one the Changarh jungles. He thought these three dogs were no 

 doubt part of the Poonassa pack. The dead sambar appeared to me as if it 

 had only been tackled by the three dogs. 



REGINALD H. HEATH. 



Siesa, June, 1903. 



No. XII— FURTHER NOTES ON KONKAN BUTTERFLIES. 



Since the publication of our paper on the butterflies of the Konkan, I am 

 now able to add the following notes on several species from observations at 

 Pali Hill near Bandra and during short visits to Khandalla and Matheran. 

 They merely go, I fear, to show the incompleteness of our list and the informa- 

 tion regarding many of the species included therein, but will, I hope, encourage 

 others to give their assistance in filling up tbe gaps. 



(33) Sympluedra nais (Forster). — I observed this on two occasions between 

 the second and third milestones going from Neral up to Matheran, so it would 

 not appear that it is so entirely confined to the coast as we had been led to 

 imagine. 



