SOD 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



No. I.-STRANGE ACCIDENT TO A SNOW LEOPARD {FELIS 



UNCI A). 



In May 1906 whilst shooting in Western Hundes I came on a dead snow 

 leopard which had met its death in a curious way. On leaving Nilang village 

 11,300 ft. in the Jadh Ganga valley and which was deserted at the time of the 

 year, my wife and I started for our next camp up the valley. 



The road on leaving the village follows the river bed for some considerable 

 way. The bed of the river here is broad and shingly and along this shingle 

 bed close to the hill side a small stream about six feet wide, having its origin 

 in some springs about 500 yards or so from the village, has cut its way joining 

 the main river close to the village. 



The load coolies were ahead of us and as they crossed the small stream near 

 the springs we saw one of them stop and pull out something which looked 

 like a leopard's tail, he apparently did not think much of it as he dropped it and 

 went on. On reaching the spot we saw a fine snow leopard, which turned out 

 to be a female, lying in the water. I had her taken out of the water and told 

 the Shikaree to have a pull at her hair fully expecting the animal to be rotten 

 and the hair to come away in handfuls, but to my surprise not a hair came 

 out and to my delight on carefully examining the animal we found her to be 

 quite fresh ; on taking the skin off we discovered the cause of death. 



There were bruises all down the back and the forehead had a large dent 

 and was smashed in evidently by a large stone. Above the stream on the hill 

 side there was a stone slide and a fall of stones must have caught the leopard 

 unawares either whilst crossing the slide, in which case she must have rolled 

 down into the stream below, or whilst she was actually drinking at the stream. 

 I cannot say if the dent in the forehead actually killed her or only stunned 

 her, in the latter case she must have been drowned after falling into the water. 

 The skin was in perfect condition and has been beautifully mounted by 

 Rowland Ward. 



H. C. TYTLER, Majou, 

 17th Infantry. 

 Barrackpore, 10th May 1908. 



No. II.— A LARGE SAMBAR HEAD. 



In the Society's Journal for November 1907 (Vol. XVIII, page 188) the 

 measurements of a very massive pair of Sambar horns are given. A few weeks 

 ago I had an opportunity of measuring a very large and massive pair of horns 



