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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
I. Sore neck in Sambar ( Cervus wnicolor). 
In Vol. I, pp. 51-53 of this Journal, Mr. P. R. Kemp, under 
the heading ‘‘ Sore neck in Sambar,” gave an account of the curious 
sore often found on the neck of Sambar in the mid-line in front, and 
about half way down. The Kditors added a remark to the effect that 
“ Major Evans in his book, Big Game shooting in Upper Burma (1910), 
speaks of it, and states positively that it occurs in all Sambar and at 
all times ( presumably in Burma and India ).” I have never found any 
mention of it by any other author treating of Sambar, which is curious 
in view of the fact that the sore is undoubtedly of very frequent 
occurrence. 
In Mr. Kemp’s note he mentions that both he and I had shot 
Sambar on which we had not noticed the sore. . Major Evans says, 
however, “ At what age the calves are attacked I do not know, but I 
have seen the spot distinctly on quite young calves not more than a 
month or two old. If any sportsman should be inclined to doubt 
my statement as to this blemish on a Sambar’s throat, I can only 
say, let him examine carefully the next Sambar he shoots; and if he 
doesn’t find a large bare circular scar on its throat, with a blood-red 
spot in the centre of it, I will eat my words served up with Sambar 
sauce! Can I say more?” Regarding this positive statement it may 
be of interest to record that, on the 11th February this year, on 
the west bank of the Meklong River, about Lai. N. 14° 26’, Long. 
E. 99° 5’, I shot a Sambar, about two years old, having no sign what- 
ever of any sore on its neck. I pirticularly called the attention of a 
Siamese surveyor, who was with me, to this fact. 
A. J. IRWIN. 
March, 1918. 
II. Note on the Wild Dog ( Cyon rutilans). 
On page 54, Vol. I, of the Journal of this Society, in a 
note headed “ Distribution of certain animals in Siam,” Mr. K. G. 
Gairdner writes, ‘“‘ Messrs. Yates and Rogers, of the Bombay Burma 
Trading Corporation, have reported a black species of Wild Dog. 
Has anyone else ever met with this animal, and have specimens ever 
been obtained ?” 
I do not know of any specimens of a black wild dog having 
been obtained, but on the 4th March this year a Siamese surveyor 
working in 8. E. Siam (about Lat. N. 12,° 52'; Long. E. 101,° 7’, ) 
informed me that, a few days previonsly, while at work, two wild dogs 
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