Jungle By-Ways in India 



The animal breeds in winter, the period of 

 gestation being sixty-three days, and their young 

 are sooty-black. 



In the mating season the animal is found in 

 pairs, and on other occasions may be occasionally 

 found singly. 



Many shikaring men always shoot a wild dog 

 on sight, and there can be little doubt that 

 much more could be done if men only took a 

 little trouble. Poison appears to be perfectly 

 useless. Several officers of the Forest Service in 

 the Central Provinces, have carried out a number 

 of most interesting experiments with strychnine, 

 with the object of lessening the seriously increas- 

 ing numbers of the animal in that province. 

 They have proved almost if not entirely abortive. 

 The dog, after eating heavily of a poisoned 

 carcass, merely vomits up the whole of his meal, 

 and goes on his nefarious way without further 

 ill effects. 



Poison is apparently useless. Therefore I 

 proffer to the true sportsman, as a last word 

 to these notes, the earnest advice : Shoot a wild 

 dog on sight, and, whenever possible, take the 

 trouble to go a little out of your way, if by doing 

 so you get the chance thereby of destroying a 

 litter. 



THE END. 



