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however was soon stopped by the master making an angry rush 

 round the rock, biting every one he met on which all, himself 

 excepted, appeared to go to sleep. He, until it was too dark to 

 see more, would sit motionless but with eyes eagerly fixed on the 

 hill they had left and on which a panther probably would appear. 



No. 3.-- -Inuus. 



JERDON, No. 6, PAGE 9, " MONKEY-LIKE BABOONS ; 

 Jerdon's remark, page 10, that the monkeys of this genus 

 " eat frogs, crabs, lizards and insects as readily as vegetable food," 

 applies to the Burmah variety, whole troops of which may at 

 low water, be seen hunting in the deep black mud at the edge 

 of the tidal creeks for any small fish that may have been left by 

 the receding stream. I do not know whether all monkeys take 

 to water willingly, but I am sure that, " Inuus rhesus," the 

 Bengal monkey, page 11 of Jerdon, swims across a stream or 

 drops into water from a tree without the least hesitation. 



The activity and timidity of monkeys should preserve them 

 from most enemies ; but I have been told of one instance where 

 during a beat for game a large snake, probably a python, or as it 

 is generally termed in the Madras Presidency, a " rock snake," 

 was found having clasped within its coils, a large but still living 

 black monkey probably as it was in Southern India a " Malabar 

 langur," page 8, or perhaps the " Neilgherry langur," page 9 of 

 Jerdon. 



These pythons grow to an immense size : almost my first adven- 

 ture with large food for powder, I cannot call it game, was on the 

 banks of the river Gauvery, about twenty miles from Seringapa- 

 tam, where, while looking for pea-fowl, my preceptor in sport and 

 I killed two of these reptiles ; one a female full of eggs nearly 

 15, the other a male more than 12, feet long ; both, the former 

 especially, very thick in proportion to their length : I have often 

 shot these snakes more than 9 and 10 feet long, and once saw one 

 that had been killed by some soldiers near our stockade at 

 Shuay Gheen in Burmah, a little more than 14 feet. Apropos 

 of this I may mention that a friend, in whom I have the utmost 

 confidence, told me that while looking for the Burmah wild cattle 



