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lets himself be seen and keeps hidden in the jungle. 

 You can only see him when he moves. He is asni 

 or asna biboa, or ashna bibta. The others are all 

 ordinary biboa, and are generally smallish, the kind 

 that live about here. 1 ' 



Another shikari, Rama, of Mahan, told me their 

 names but did not point out their differences ; ashna 

 bibta, duita bibta, karri bibta, and ushia bagh. 



I was sitting over a kill one evening when two wild 

 dogs came. The men told me afterwards that they 

 were called kuliss or kulissra, and that they were not 

 wild dogs, but I am pretty sure they were. The 

 shikari told me a curious story about them, which 

 was, " All animals are afraid of kulissra, even tigers, 

 which they can kill, and this is how they set about 

 it. When they prepare to attack, first of all they 

 stale, and wet and rub their bushy tails in this, then 

 several of them go up together to a tiger or panther 

 and swish their tails into his eyes : this smarts and 

 blinds him, then all the kuliss can go safely in and 

 rend him/' The Ranger said he had seen kulissra 

 tearing up a panther who could not get away because 

 he could not see which way he was going and seemed 

 quite helpless. 



