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accounted for the disaster to the young birds, but against this there is the fact 

 that there were a few of the same age alive, and that the parent birds had not 

 deserted their nests. 



ARUNDEL BEGBIE, Major, 

 Adjutant, CawnpuRk Vol. Rifles. 

 Cawnpore, 4th June, 1905. 



No. XVIII — VEST OF THE BROWN-BACKED INDIAN ROBIN 

 (THAMNOBIA CA MBAIENSIS). 



In the few books I possess dealing with the birds of India, I find no notice of 

 the habit T, cambuiensis (The Brown-backed Indian Robin) has of working cast 

 snake-skins into its nest. I have found so many cases where this has been done 

 and invariably with what seemed an attempt at pattern, that it appears to me 

 impossible that it was mere chance. In each instance the nest has been lined 

 with the usual horse-hair, and worked into the lining have been two narrow 

 strips of snake-skin, in the form of a cross. These birds are so common and 

 their nests so easily found, that there will be no difficulty in other observers 

 noting whether this habit is one of locality or of species. 



ARUNDEL BEGBIE, Major, 

 Adjutant, Cawnpore Vol. Rifles. 

 Cawnpore, 4th June, 1905. 



No. XIX.— A BOLD TIGER. 



I wonder if any of the members of Society can parallel the following instance 

 of a tiger's audacity ? 



Last February I was sitting up for a tiger over a couple of live pigs. The 

 brute came after dark, and as he was killing the second pig I fired and missed 

 In about a quarter of an hour the tiger was back again finishing off the pig 

 which was not quite dead. Again I fired and missed and went home disgusted 

 After I had left the machan the tiger again returned, as we found next 

 morning, and had his meal in peace. In the evening A. sat up in the same 

 place. The tiger returned to finish the pig, while it was still light, and rcet 

 the fate which he richly deserved. He was a young male 7 ft. 5 inch in 

 length, but even for a tiger just out of the nursery I think he showed unusual 

 during. The machan was at the outskirts of the jungle, aid seme distant c 

 from anywhere that the tiger could lie up during the day, and there were 

 several villages in the vicinity. 



H. TYLEH, I.C.P. 

 Bhadrachalam, 

 godavari, madkas, 

 5th June, 1905. 



No. XX.— ARROW HEADS IN A BISON. 

 While cutting up a bull bison which I shot in Mav last, two iron arrow 

 heads wen- found embedded in the flesh, one in the side and the other in tbc 

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