MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. . ill 
with which I am familiar. My brother and I saw an animal in the 
Klong Suan Mak which we both felt sure was a jackal. However I 
have never heard the cry of a jackal, which cannot be mistaken, 
during 15 years residence in Siam. 
G. F. WESTON ELWES. 
March, 1914. 
There appears to be no doubt that the jackal is widely, although locally, 
distributed throughout this country. Eds.] 
No. I1.—SEASONAL OILY SECRETION IN GAUR 
OR SELADANG. 
On entering a narrow valley in January, 1914, the Karen guide 
informed me that it was the habitat of a bull Gaur (Pes gaurus)— 
notorious for some 10 years past, and which never ran away but 
frequently chased man. While on the march I was fortunate enough 
to meet the animal and shoot him, and he certainly bore out what 
the Karen had said in not running away, though, possibly owing 
to the disadvantage of position, he made no attempt to come up the 
steep bank at us. ; 
The animal had ample warning of my approach, as two coolies, 
having got ahead of me, dropped their loads and ran back on seeing 
the great beast standing in the stream and staring up at them. I 
was followed by some 30 coolies in pretty close order and all were 
conversing fairly loudly. The 8-bore was brought up from the 
rear of the line and I went forward to where the men had dropped 
their loads, but from that point could only get a head shot, so went 
op some 8 metres and had an easy shot at the flank at 20 metres 
distance. 
The 2 oz. ball, entering high on the right side, passed through 
the heart and out on the other side, missing all bones I bel:eve, though 
I did not wait to see the animal cut up. 
On being hit he crashed through the elephant grass on the far 
bank, and died some 20 metres only from the spot at which he had 
previously stood. 
The whole neck and shoulders were covered with an oily 
secretion, making the black hair of the neck g'isten, and the scrotum 
and inguinal region were dirty orange yellow, and also very greasy. 
