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removal in order to give room for the remainder, were ringed. 
about a foot above ground in the dry season (December to 
February inclusive) of 1918-19, the cuts being two inches or so 
wide and care being taken that everything outside of the wood 
stumps eight to twelve feet in height; both these and those 
which had not been cut in any way since ringing were nearly all 
still alive and growing well, except. where fires had been made 
against some of the stumps for the purpose of killing them because 
ringing failed. In most cases these living stumps and trees 
had gaits or completely grown a layer of wood and. bark down- 
ward across the ring (see figure) in the form of a bridge, the 
breadth of the latter (horizontally) being usually from two to 
three inches, but six and seven inches respectively in the two 
specimens; there was Lgerenrs only one such bridge, but some- 
times two. The ringing had apparently had no effect on the 
top growth (branches and leaves) of the unlo 
the ‘stumps’ had branched prolifically right at the top, anes 
being, however, a tendency towards the formation of small, 
