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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 

 No. I.— A GAUR ATTACKING AND KILLING A MAN WITHOUT 



PROVOCATION. 



As I believe instances of unwounded bison making a determined and 

 unprovoked attack on human beings are rare, possibly the following account 



NOTICE. 



lu order to facilitate reference, the Miscellaneous Notes are now 

 published in the following order of subjects : — 



Mammals, 



Birds, 



Reptiles, 



Fishes, 



Insects, 



Geology, 



Botany, 



General, 



instead of, as hitherto, according to the date on which they have 



been received. 



EDITORS. 



H. V. iJUxtfS, liT.-COL., R.E. 

 Mhow, C. I.. Sept. 1907. 



No. II.— THE EFFECT OF STRYCHNINE ON WILD DOGS. 



I venture to address you with reference to Mr. Witt's letter on the difficul- 

 ties of poisoning wild dogs with strychnine, which appeared in your number 

 for July last, as the method I employed proved successful. 



I prepared an emulsion of strychnine, using about 10 grains of strychnine 

 and a tumbler of water. Strychnine dissolves tardily, but a perfect solution 

 is not required : it can be procured, however, by the addition of a small quantity 

 of acid. This solution I injected into the carcass with a hypodermic syringe and 

 in places stuck in my hunting knife and poured the solution into the wound. 



By this method the poison got well distributed and not being on the surface 

 did not arouse suspicion. I invariably found that animals that ate of the 

 carcass died, and on one occasion the whole pack was found dead around the bait. 



