INTRODUCTION 



As will be seen from the Appendix, the Cashmere 

 Government has at last been brought to see the 

 necessity for game regulations, and it is to be 

 hoped that the wild game of the Himalayas may 

 be effectively protected against the usual whole- 

 sale butchery by natives during the winter months. 



The Madras Government has, it will be observed, 

 at last introduced game laws, which, however, apply 

 only to the Neilgherry district, whereas it is quite 

 time that effective protection should be afforded 

 to game throughout the presidency, as well as in 

 the independent, protected state of Mysore. 



The author's personal experience of Indian sport 

 has been derived from many years spent, for the 

 most part, under very favourable circumstances for 

 the pursuit of large game, chiefly hi the south of 

 India. 



He can claim a somewhat intimate and extensive 

 acquaintance with the game animals of the south, 

 having bagged all of them with the single exception 

 of the nilghaie. He has not shot the striped hyaena, 

 though he has seen it in the jungle, nor does he 

 include this scavenger amongst game animals. 



As briefly indicated in the Preface, he has, with 

 a view to rendering this work more complete, com- 

 piled from other authors brief notices of nearly all 

 the game animals of India which have not fallen 

 to his own rifle, and he hopes that these, together 

 with the references which he has given to other 

 books which deal comprehensively with them, may 

 prove of service to the beginner who may wish 

 to shoot large game in India. 



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