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been seen by the State shikaris. I hope to verify this statement by personal 

 observation during the summer. 



J. MANNERS SMITH, Major. 

 Khatmandu, Nepal, 14th June 1905. 



No. VI— WILD BOAR WITHOUT TESTES. 



Can you give me any information or explanation on a curious subject. We 

 were pigsticking at Vinghool near Ahmedabad on Thursday, 15th June 1905, 

 and killed a very good boar. His measurements were, height from heel to 

 wither 29|". Tushes 2£" outside and huge upper tushes. His generative organs 

 were perfect, except thsre was no sign of testes, or mark or scar where they 

 had been. We cut him open but were unable to find anything at all. The 

 shikaris told me that boars sometimes lost them fighting but there was no scar. 



I am also inclined to think that he had not the same fighting pluck as a good 

 boar of his size should have, as he had two opportunities of doing very serious 

 damage but entirely neglected them. 



H, E. MEDLICOTT, Lieut., R.F.A., 



Hony. Secy., Ahmedabad Tent Club. 

 Ahmedabad, June \lth, 1905. 



No. VII.— NOTE ON THE BREEDING OF THE KRAIT 



(BUNGARUS CCERULEUS). 



On the morning of the 24th May 1905 while the Public Works coolies were 

 engaged in digging out the old masonry work of the boiler-house behind the 

 Plague Laboratory, they came on a live snake. The snake crawled away, but 

 was at once caught and proved to be a krait, probably one which had escaped 

 from its cage in the Laboratory some time before. Four eggs were found in 

 the earth beside the snake, and later on, while digging further another one was 

 found. Next morning, a sixth egg was unearthed, which being cracked, ws.s 

 opened by me and found to contain an embryo coiled up in a spiral form. It 

 measured about six inches long, and had a reddish appearance reminding one 

 of an earth worm. No scales are to be seen and the head appears dispropor- 

 tionately large. With a magnifying glass, however, the scales appear as 

 circular bosses separated from one another by a space about as broad as their 

 own diameter. One of the eggs was placed in a hole dug in the boiler house, 

 and covered over with earth to see if it would hatch out. It was examined, 

 from time to time, but the shell gradually shrivelled, and the whole became 

 converted into a hard solid lump. 



Two of the eggs were put in the cage where the kraits are kept and covered 

 with the sand in the bottom of the cage, but they also have shrivelled up. 



