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there are two varieties of the rhinoceros, buffaloes in 

 hundreds, tigers, bears occasionally, marsh and hog deer. 

 The serow is also found in a few of the Cossyah, Jynteah, and 

 Garrow hills. Amongst the Mishmie hills on our north-eastern 

 frontier is found the takin, an ugly-looking brute, somewhat 

 resembling the gnu of Africa. The yak or bungooroo is 

 found in Bhootan ; hogs are innumerable and of vast dimen- 

 sions, and afford good pig-sticking in some of the churs below 

 Dobree. The hare is only met with in a few places in Mung- 

 ledye, but is more plentiful below Dobree. The pigmy hog 

 and the hispid hare are also found in the Dooars at the base 

 of the Bhootan hills. Leopards often take up their residence 

 in cane-brakes in the midst of large towns like Burpettah 

 and Hazoo. The jackal is very common, but the hyaena, as 

 far as I know, is unknown. The tucktoo of Burma is also to 

 be heard in various places, notably Burneyhat, eighteen miles 

 from Gowhatty, and also inland from Goalpara. 



The game-birds consist of the Indian variety of pea-fowl, 

 the ordinary jungle-fowl, two varieties of pheasant, the black 

 and the marsh, and three varieties of hill-partridges. There 

 are also quail, and the florikin is very plentiful, but there are 

 no bustard. 



GENERAL SPORT 



Gowhatty is not a pleasant place to live in, and there was 

 not even a house to be got when I arrived. The Commissioner's 

 clerks occupied the public bungalow, but Mr. Campbell the 

 Assistant-Commissioner, lived in a dilapidated house, and kindly 

 placed half of it at our disposal, and as he was shortly leaving 

 on a tour with the Commissioner, said I should have it to 

 myself ere long. I had a young wife with me, and was rather 

 ashamed of the only accommodation I could offer her, but I got 

 in a lot of workmen and soon converted the tumble-down 

 building into a habitable one. 



I had great trouble in getting elephants, the price sanctioned 

 for their purchase being altogether inadequate. The Bhootan 

 war had exhausted the Province of these useful slaves, but 

 after a long fight and much correspondence and telegraphing, 



