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the Maharaja's camp, which spread among the elephant drivers and rendered all 

 question of a successful undertaking that year an impossibility. The total 

 number of rhinos bagged was tv^nty-eight (fourteen males and fourteen 

 females), and in addition six rhino Ives were cauo^ht 



The Maharaja's objfct in trying to catch young rhinos was not, as might be 

 inferred from your correspondent, eilher to sell them or to start a new form 

 ofsport(/.e.. rhinoceros racing) but to turn the young ones down for breed- 

 ing purpose in the Eastern Terai, where these animals Lad become scarce 

 through a disease which broke out some years ago. This, however, he was un- 

 able to do, as all six calves proved to be males. 



In spite of the numbers of rhino which were killed in January 1907 the 

 forests in Chitawan are still so full of them that no appreciable diminution in 

 the stock has been made. The Maharaja was good enough to let me invite his 

 Highness the Maharaja of Bikaner and another friend to shoot in February 

 1908. in the Naolpur valley bordering on Chitawan. My friends had no diffi- 

 culty within two days in securing the four rhino for which I had asked the 

 Nepal Durbar to limit the permit. 



The following extract of a letter, dated May 25th, 1909, from Mr. F. W 

 Gordon- Canning, of the Pursa Factory, Champaran, who was fishing in the' 

 Rapti this year, will also corroborate what I say. 



" My principal fun was going out on an elephant photographing rhinos. 1 

 '• hope some will come out well. I took a lot, and came as near as 15 yards 

 " Once or twice we were in a tight place, but the rhinos did not make good 

 " their charge. They are simply in swaims ; I counted twenty within a mile 

 '• of my camp, and I did not go into the good ground. There were ten big ones 

 "in a small piece of grass not more than 5 acres in extent. " 



I do not know to what young stag from Sikkim Mr. Lydekker refers, but the 

 designation •' Sikkim stag " for the shou {Cervus affl,ds) is, as Hodgson point- 

 ed out, incorrect, for the shou does not appear south of the Biahmaputra 

 watershed. If the young stag from Sikkim is Cm^s o#«es, the probability is 

 that he came from Thibet via Sikkim, and was not reared in Sikkim. 



J. MANNEES-SMITH, Liedt.-Colonel, 



British Resident in Nepal. 



No. VII.—" THE MEASUREMENTS OF SOME OF THE HORNS 



IN THE COLLECTION OF THE BOMBAY NATURAL 



HISTORY SOCIETY." 



It has been suggested to me that I should have stated in the above-named 



paper how the various measurements were taken, since there appears to be 



^ no recognised way which is accepted by all sportsmen and naturalists. 



After consulting Ward's Horn MeaHur^ment. Burke's S/dLar Book and 

 various other books dealing with Indian sport and Natural History, the follow- 

 ing measurements and the manner of taking them were decided on— 

 Length.-ln Cattle, Sheep, Goats (except Markhor), Antelope (except Black 



