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Unfortunateiy the surveyor who procured the animal, kept 
only the skin without head or legs. He informed me that he had, in 
1912, shot this animal in the Hue Sut Yhai in N. Lat 12°40.’ 
Sus cristatus. The Indian Wild Boar. 
Some doubt has been expressed as to the identification of pig 
obtained in the Ratburi district ; and pigs obtained in lower Tenas- 
serim by the Bombay N. H. 8S. Mammal Survey have been classified as 
the smaller species viz:—Sus jubatus—the Tenasserim Wild Pig. 
Unfortunately the weights and measurements of these specimens are 
not given. ‘The measurements of a boar and sow obtained in Ratburi 
district are given here, together with those given by Blanford for the 
Indian species, and it will be seen that Ratburi specimens are well up 
to the Indian—sows being constantly smaller than boars. 
Fauna B.1.) Length Height Skull basal Zygomatic Weight. 
Boar. 60 in. 28-36 13.75 Ts 200-300 Tbs. 
J aaa Spins (eolin, oes £ yi cahinated 300: 
Sai Yoke. Sow. 52in. 314 in. 11.9 in, 9.4 in. 175 tbs. 
Further skulls are desirable, with body measurements and 
weights if possible. 
K. G. GAIRDNER. 
Oct., 1915. 
No. Il.—NOTE ON SAMBAR ( CERVUS UNICOLOR ) 
SHEDDING ITS HORNS. 
As there seems to be considerable diversity of opinion as to how 
often sambar shed their horns, the following may be of interest. 
A stag which was caught when a few months old and obtained 
by the present owner at the age of 2 years, has for the last four years 
while in his possession shed its horns annually in August. 
The horns have not. appreciably become bigger with each 
successive year, but this year they appear to show signs of being 
larger than before. In 1912 the left horn had an extra tine just 
above the brow tine, but this has not appeared since. 
According the Blandford and Lydekker wild stags in India 
do not shed their horns regularly every season, and it would be 
interesting to know in what months sambar with fully developed 
horns have been shot in Siam. 
P. A. R. BARRON. 
Nov., 1915. 
No. IIl.—A NEW SNAKE FOR BANGKOK. 
Since completing my articles on the Snakes of Bangkok, another 
species has been added to the list, viz., Lycodon laoensis, caught last 
month beneath some fire-wood at Bangkok Noi. The descriptions of 
this snake, taken no doubt from museum specimens, give the colour as 
being “ dark brown above, with a whitish cross-band on the occiput 
