120 



much out of breath after a long run under a noon-day Indian sun to 

 fire with effect, so I had to watch the scene at a distance until I 

 recovered breath. I then incautiously attempted to cheer on the 

 dog ; but the pariah who had never seen a white face before, or 

 perhaps disgusted with my interference, declined to assist me 

 further and allowed the bull to give me another run as severe as at 

 first before I got to him again. 



Since the above notes have been printed, Colonel Douglas 

 Hamilton, who is the best authority I can quote regarding field 

 sports in Southern India, has permitted me to mention a curious 

 corroboration of my remark, at page 122, regarding the general 

 resemblance of nil-gai to horses. He informed me that the name 

 given to nil-gai by the natives of the Coimbatore district means, 

 when translated " wild horse" and that these people described them 

 as wild horses so vividly that they induced an officer employed in 

 that part of the country, and who, as I did in Orissa, went after 

 them without seeing them, to believe that horses in a state of nature 

 were actually to be found in Coimbatore. This might uninten- 

 tionally have led others astray, as in the case of the hog and mouse 

 deer, pages 112 and 121 of these notes. 



This is however an excellent support to my remark ; for when 

 one considers the little communication natives of India had or even 

 now have with each other, that leaving prejudices aside, the very 

 languages are unlike and how unapt, they all are at receiving fresh 

 impressions of any kind ; it is perhaps not too much to say that one 

 might almost as well expect natives of the Shetlauds and of the 

 Gold Coast to have similar terms for the same animal as those of 

 Orissa and of Southern India. 



No- 64 Tetraceros-quadricornis. 



JERDON, No. 227, PAGE 274 ; FOUR-HORNED ANTKLOPE. 



This animal is more rare in most parts of the Madras Presidency 

 than the muntjae or barking deer, with which it, the female especially, 

 is sometimes confounded ; both by European sportsmen and native 

 hunters, under the ordinary term "jungle sheep" used by them for 

 all small rod deer. 



