2 INTRODUCTION. 



kinds are found, it is absolutely necessary that 

 the farmers or villagers should have some con- 

 trivance for their destruction,, in order to pre- 

 serve themselves, their cattle, or their grain. 

 In almost every district of India, different me- 

 thods are used for catching or destroying the 

 same kind of animals, but those which I shall 

 notice will be chiefly such as I have seen used 

 in the Jungle districts of Ramghur, Rogo- 

 nautpore and Bundbissunpore. 



