MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. ih 



the main nallah, where it took refuge in some thick bushes. Again Sal 

 went in and this time went straight for the tiejer, receiving some nasty 

 wounds in the encounter. However the plucky beast went in again, and by 

 continuous barking revealed the position of the tiger. The latter was 

 now crouched in the bushes, which the bleeding and exhausted dog had left. 

 Showers of stones failed to move the tiger. It was now getting late, 

 the beast was a danger to the country and must be killed. The only thing 

 possible was to go in and look for it. A long search ensued, and we at length 

 discovered it crouching in the bushes, where a few shots put an end to its 

 existence. That the dog Sal was greatly instrumental in securing a success- 

 ful issue to the hunt cannot be denied, whilst it may also be conjectured 

 that her presence saved one or more men from a severe mauling, and she 

 at least deserves such immortality as this journal can confer. 

 The place where we eventually brought the tiger to the bag was some twelve 

 or thirteen miles from Jalna, a fact which shows what a long distance an 

 animal will travel, although severely wounded. A bullet fired when the 

 beast was first found in cantonments had passed through and broken 

 the hind leg about half way between paw and hock, whilst another bullet was 

 imbedded in the off fore-paw. 



Perhaps the most remarkable part of the occurrence was that a tiger 

 should have been found in such a locality. Jalna is a remote station, before 

 the mutiny it was occupied by a large garrison, situated oasis-like in the midst 

 of a comparatively desert country. As far as I know there are no tiger- 

 haunted jungles within fifty or sixty miles. Whence, then, did the animal 

 come, and why did he leave the seclusion of his native jungles ? 



E. G. BURTON, Captain, 

 1st Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent. 

 Jalna, November 22th, 1898. 



No. XII.— THE NIDIFICATION OF SOME MALAYAN BIRDS. 



The Dusky Broadbill {Corydon sumatranus, Raffles). 



Mr. Blanford (" Birds,'' III, p. 6) says that the nest of this Broadbill does 

 not appear to have been recorded. 



I found a nest on June 20th this year, suspended from a single hanging 

 shoot of thorny rattan, and hsnging some 20 feet above the steaming mud 

 at the edge of a boiling spring in the thick jungle. 



The nest was an enormously long trailing mass (just short of 7 feet in 

 total length) of roots, fiU-es, creeper, moss, twigs, pieces of dead wood and 

 bark, dead and green leaves, etc., bulging out in the middle to form a 

 chamber about 10 inches external diameter, the entrance at the side pro- 

 tected by a small portico. It contained four very young birds, blind and 



