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killed a few hours previously by some bird of prey. It was fully grown and 

 closely resembled my first. The following is a rough description of it: — 



Tail lung and bushy ; ears large and rounded. The general colour above ia 

 earthy to rufous brown, below buffy white. There is a broad black stripe 

 from the muzzle to the ear. 



Measurements : (1) Head and body 100 m.m. (2) Tail 80-5 m.m. (3) Hind 

 foot 19 m.m. (4) Ear 16 m.m. 



C. H. T. WHITEHEAD, Lt., 56th Rifles, F. F. 



Parachinar, Kurram Valley, N.-W. Frontier, 6th May, 1907. 



No. XIII.— SOME NOTES ON WILD DOGS AND PANTHEUS. 



I was shooting for six weeks last April and May in an out-of-the-way part 

 of the Nimar District, ia which only two tigers had been killed in the last 

 eight years or so. I expec led to find about eight tigers of sorts in it. There 

 were five all-told, including two little cubs, too small to run with their 

 mother. There were two or three packs of wild dogs, and a large number of 

 sambhur and bears, also several panthers. The wild dogs, as usual, interfered 

 very much with one's sport. They appeared to me particularly bold in this 

 jungle. They growled at me two or three times, and just before I left the 

 jungle I heard that four or five of them had attacked two forest guards, who 

 killed one dog with an axe. The Forest Ranger informed me of this. So 

 bold are these brutes that I am afraid they may take to killing men. 

 They killed several calves while I was in the jungle, and also six of my 

 tied-up buffaloes. 



One evening close to my camp I came on a pack evidently hunting but 

 running mute. I waited on the road within a hundred and fifty yards of 

 my camp. Soon a half grown sambhur came galloping by within ten yaids 

 but paid no attention to me. About two minutes afterwards the same sambhur 

 galloped by from the same direction and passed within five yards of me. A big 

 wild dog was hanging on to its belly. He let go when he saw me, and I shot 

 him. I do not know what became of the sambhur. A few days afterwards in 

 the early morning my men came on some wild dogs chasing a panther, a female 

 I think. They said the panther had climbed a tree. Later I went out and 

 found fresh claw marks of a panther up a " Karhai " tree. It had climbed 

 up about ten feet. At the foot of the tree were the nail marks of the dogs 

 where they had been jumping at the panther. A few days afterwards the 

 wild dogs killed one of my tied-up buffaloes. Half was left. I made a strong 

 solution of strychnine and injected it with a syringe into the muscles, and I 

 also scored the fljsh and rubbed in strychnine and arsenic. I came back in about 

 an hour, and found about a dozen dogs drinking at a pool close to the kill. 

 As I watched one became convulsed and fell down dead. I expected to see 

 more die, so would not shoot. I then walked up towards the dogs, and they 

 went slowly off. Then one came back, seized the dead dog by the scruff of 



