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The Tree-pie bit the Robin's head clean off and ate it, afterwards proceed- 

 ing to try and tear other parts off the body. It had partially got rid of the 

 right wing, when the observer interfered, and secured the body to show me. 

 Dendrocitta rufa is very plentiful here, as are also fruit trees, and I have 

 never seen one feed on anything but fruit. 



ARUNDEL BEGBIE, Major. 



Cawnpore, 4th May 1905. 



No. VII.— BREEDING SEASONS OF BIG GAME. 



I. 



The Nilgai or Blue-Bull (Boselaphus tragocamelus.) 



I saw a herd of three Nilgai cows yesterday in the Thasra Taluka. All 

 three had calves between one and two months old. 



C. W. M. HUDSON, I.C.S. 

 Camp Kaira, 15th January 1905. 



II. 



The Persian Gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa.) 



Vith reference to Mr. E. Comber's letter, dated 12th September 1904, pub- 

 lished on pages 178 and 179 of this Society's Journal, Volume XVI., No. 1, 

 which was kindly sent over to me for perusal by Colonel A. H. McMahon, 

 C.S.I., C.I.E., you might think the following facts in regard to the Persian 

 Gazelle {Gazella subgutturosa) sufficiently interesting for record. The first is 

 that the Persian Gazelle is definitely known to breed during the months of 

 December and January. A Bugti shikari belonging to the Seistan Mission 

 Camp, between the 13th December 1904 and the lfith January 1905, when the 

 Mission was encamped on the Farrah Hud, not only saw does accompanied by 

 young fawns on more than one occasion, but out of sixteen Gazelle which he 

 shot, found on examination, that all the females (five in number) were carry- 

 ing young. 



The other item of interest is that the Persian Gazelle ordinarily gives birth 

 to two fawns at a time, as was found to be the case in all the instances referred 

 to above. 



J. W. NICOL CUJMMING, 

 Superintendent, Seistan Arbitration Mission. 

 Seistan, via Quetta, 6^ May 1905. 



No. VIII. -STRANGE MORTALITY AMONGST TERMITES 



IN TEA-BUSHES. 



I am sending you some specimens for exhibition at your next meeting with 

 a view to obtaining suggestions from other members who may have observed 

 the same phenomenon. The specimens were sent to me by Mr, H. L. Andrewes. 



