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Ursus tibetanus no doubt does much damage to the villagers when he thus 

 comes across them, but I do not think he is the vicious brute they make him 

 out to be, but in his blundering way is more anxious to get away than fight, 

 and it is more in self-defence that he attacks them than from malice preponse. 



While on a short visit to the romantic little lake Mai war Tal near Bhim Tal, 

 during which time the rains broke, we had a constant cannonade of falling 

 rocks, and this seems to be such a familiar aspect of affairs to the Gooral that 

 they would not budge from their resting places during the heat of the day by 

 stones thrown down from above, and it required a rifle shot to disturb them. 



On a ridge about 1,000 feet above the Lake, I watched for some time a 

 fine male Pine Martin (Mustela flavigula) feeding on the half ripe figs of the 

 " Peepul " (Ficus religiosa). He made off as soon as he saw me and I spared his 

 life, as I was on the edge of the Gooral ground, and it was early morning 

 when these animals are generally moving about. 



R. H. HEATH, a.m.ix.k. 



Fategauh, U. P., July 1908. 



