FORESTS OF KADUR DISTRICT 



are Lakwallie, twenty-two miles from Birur railway 

 station, where there is a travellers' bungalow 

 outside the forest, and a forest lodge in the heart 

 of the latter Muthodie, beyond Lakwallie, and 

 Tegurgudda beyond Muthodie. Tigers, as well as 

 bison and deer, inhabit these forests, but the first 

 are not easily met with. 



Lakwallie is a very large forest, the State 

 reserved portion of which covers an area of forty- 

 seven square miles. These three forests are all 

 very thick, but bison abound in them, as also in the 

 horse-shoe at the foot of, and formed by, the Baba 

 Booden hills. Bison are no longer to be found 

 on the grassy slopes on these hills, as they once 

 were (Colonel Pollock mentions having seen them 

 there in 1870), but are numerous in the forested 

 area at their base. The Lakwallie teak plantations 

 often hold a tiger (I shot two in them upon 

 different occasions when beating for deer, or for 

 anything that might chance to appear), and spotted 

 deer and sambur are numerous therein, as also in 

 many parts of the forest. 



I believe that only two elephants remain in this 

 and the adjoining district of Shimoga. There 

 used to be a considerable herd frequenting im- 

 partially these two districts, but they became very 

 troublesome to the roots and destructive to crops, 

 and permission was therefore given to the late 

 Major P., of the 2ist Hussars (now Lancers), to 

 shoot some of the largest, which he accordingly 

 did. The balance of the herd, with the exception 

 of the above-mentioned two animals, was subse- 



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