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The eyes were not opened until the 6th of August corroborating native tes- 

 timony previously received to the effect that they opened a month after birth. 



I saw the family again on the '20th of August and the cubs then showed 

 decided indication of the adult colouration. The fur was still in the main 

 greyish dorsally and very close set almost woolly, but a few sparse hairs were 

 appearing showing the glowing red colour of the parent. Beneath, the fur had 

 acquired a smoky black tinge. The cat-bear is called by the Panaris about 

 Darjeeling " Khunda." 



F. WALL, c.M.z.s., Major, i.m.s. 



Darjeeling, 20th August 1908. 



No. VIII. -CROWS AND THEIR SLEEPING PLACES. 



As is well known the crow rarely sleeps where he spends his day. He is a 

 regular city man going into town for his day's business and coming out at 

 night to the suburbs, and after the toil of the day he likes to have a good wash 

 before he goes to bed. The writer lived for years in a well shaded compound 

 about a mile from a city. There were always some crows about but in the 

 evening (he compound filled up with crows. 



But the point of interest is the distances which crows will go to spend the 

 night in a favored locality. One such place is a grove of trees near the bridge 

 of boats at Lahore, and all through the evening hour3 crows may ba seen 

 making for that spot from all parts of Lahore itself, and not only so but 

 we have stood at the evening hour at the extreme south end of Mian 

 Mir and watched the crows from there making for tha'"< particular place, 

 which was five miles distant, and not only so but as one looked south over the 

 treeless expanse of jungle from that end of Mian Mir, one could see crows 

 coming from beyond the horizon and making straight overhead for that place. 



More than once business took us to a very small village in the Amritsar 



district. From about half past three m the afternoon till about half past five 



a constant stream of crows passed over. They were joined by a few others 



from the neighbourhood but the main stream came out of the horizon in one 



direction and passed over the horizon in the opposite. Their track was about 



200 yards from side to side and they flaw high in the evening, but coming back 



in the very earliest dawn they almost skimmed the ground. I counted 350 in 



fifteen minutes one evening. The place in question was about 3d miles from 



Lahore and they disappeared in the direction of Lahore. Where they came 



from I have no idea. 



T. BOMFORD (Revd.). 



Dera Ismail Khan, May 1903. 



No. IX. -A HOOPOE INCIDENT. 

 A friend of mine was detained in the upper room of a house in Kashmir 

 whera he was confined to his bed. There were gaps between thb boards 

 which f oi mod the floor of his room, and there was a space beween those boards 



