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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



No. I.— NOTES FROM THE ORIENTAL SPORTING MAGAZINE. 

 NEW SERIES, 1869 to 1879. 



Size op Wild Boars. 



A number of contributors corresponded as to weight and size of wild 

 boars, and what appear to be the more careful records of these are given 

 below : — 



Length. Girth. Neck. 



Seroor, Beema River 



Deccan, Poona 

 Sind, Jacobabad 



Durbungah, Reyam Factory 



Tirhoot, Assam 



Height. 



38A 



37* 



36i 



35 



33i 



33 



38 

 37 

 37f 

 36 

 36 

 35 

 34 

 32 

 32 

 , 31 

 31 

 37i 



mk 



36 

 36 

 35 

 34 

 34 

 32 

 30f 



64i« 



61 



58i 



60 



59 



61 



60 



59 



55 



53 



57 



69^ 



65 



62 



60 



56 



68 



66 



57 



64 



60 



51/' 



46i 



42 



48i 



44 



46 



44 



40 



40 



45 

 46 



43, 

 36 



Weight, 

 lbs. 

 300 

 258 

 155 

 216 

 196 

 162 

 234 

 191 

 162 

 209 

 185 



185 

 165 



iso 

 iso 



281 

 270 

 26i> 

 236 

 247 

 270 

 243 

 250 

 252 



The Sind boars appear to be "lean kine " as compared with those of the 

 Deccan and Assam. 



A monster boar is recorded from the Helmund River, Afghanistan. 



Height 



J7^, length 62, girth 55, forearm 11, weight 266 lbs. 



Musk Deek. 



At p. 300 of Vol. IX, 1876 : mention is made of the belief that the size of 

 the pod of the musk deer varies with the increasing and waning of the 

 moon. Marco Polo mentions the same in his travels, and it is commonly 

 believed and asserted by the hill men and shikaris of the lower Himalayas. 

 The writer has shot two musk deer only, each of which weighed 30 lbs and 

 the pod of the one, shot on a day when the moon was full, was larger than 

 that of the animal killed when the moon was 5 or 6 days on the wane : but 

 a large series of observations would be necessary to arrive at a proper 

 conclusion in the matter. 



