BULLET AND SHOT 



A very large pair of tusks was bagged many 

 years ago in the Vursinaad Valley, Madura District, 

 by Mr. Fischer of Madura, which measure- 

 Length. Greatest girth. 

 Inches. Inches. 



Longer tusk . . . 72 ... i8 



Shorter tusk . . .66 ... 18^ 



and weigh 72^- and 70 Ibs. respectively, or 142^- Ibs. 

 the pair. I personally measured and weighed all 

 these three last-mentioned pairs, and can vouch for 

 the accuracy of the measurements and weights. 



Elephants, in common with bison and deer } 

 appreciate salt in wet weather, and they therefore 

 frequently visit salt - licks in the monsoon ; and 

 sometimes, when one of the latter is situated in a 

 nullah, a good idea of the size of the tusks of an 

 elephant which has visited it may be obtained from 

 their impressions in the soft earth of the bank. 



A similar approximation may also be sometimes 

 made if a place in which the elephant has lain down 

 to sleep should be found, provided only that the soil 

 be sodden as is usually the case during the mon- 

 soon, which is by far the best time for elephant 

 shooting in Mysore. 



It is, owing to the restriction before mentioned, 

 by no means easy to advise a sportsman who may 

 wish to shoot an elephant how to obtain the 

 required permission. 



Before the Mysore Government reintroduced the 

 capture of elephants in kheddahs, leave to shoot a 

 tusker was often granted upon application ; but now 

 that the same are working, it would, in the absence 



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