THE INDIAN BISON 



its throat cut by the bullet. H.'s ball had first cut 

 the throat of the bull, and had then gone on into 

 the cow beyond. As may well be imagined, his 

 leg was very badly bruised. Curiously enough, his 

 companion in this trip Captain F., of the same 

 regiment was also upset by a wounded bull, who 

 knocked him (a big, powerful man) clean over, 

 although missing his aim, by a creeper, which he 

 took with him in his rush, and which cut through 

 F.'s gaiter and stocking, and the skin of his leg. 

 The bull then went on and lay down, and F. fol- 

 lowed him up alone and killed him. 



I have known several different sounds emitted 

 by bison. The one most frequently heard is their 

 snort of alarm when suddenly disturbed ; I have 

 also heard them give vent to a low " moo," very 

 like that of domestic cattle. In the Versinaad 

 valley, in the Madura district, I heard bison 

 making a noise which I mistook for one made by 

 elephants ; and I once heard a bison, which had 

 been struck in the neck by a '500 Express (solid) 

 bullet and was floundering forward on its knees, 

 bellow plaintively. This last animal recovered 

 itself without falling right over, and went off and 

 I did not see it again. 



Bison are forest-loving animals, and on the hill 

 ranges inhabited by them, where open grassy 

 slopes and dense cover alternate, the hot hours 

 of the day are spent in the latter, and they must 

 be stalked and shot, like other hill game, when 

 they are out on the grass in the mornings and 

 afternoons. 



