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could they turn out. The largest thing we saw,” remarks Dr. 
Hunter, “ was a small spotted deer. Bears and leopards still survive 
in the recesses of the woods, but they never trouble the inhabitants, 
and their capture is as much an event as the shooting of an eagle 
in the Scottish Highlands.” 
Captain Burton, in his ‘Goa and the Blue Mountains’ (published 
in 1851), mentions that the Madras Government at that time, as 
for many years afterwards, gave a reward of £7 for every slaughtered 
full-grown elephant, and £5 for every young one. But when the 
reward was claimed the tusks had to be given up, though tuskers 
were comparatively few in number. They have now been killed 
off to such an extent in the Madras Presidency that wild elephants 
are there no longer permitted to be slain, except by procural of a 
Government license, the cost of which is prohibition except toa 
few; for tame elephants are as much as ever in request, and it has 
not been found to pay to breed and rear them in a state of domes- 
ticity. 
E. Biya. 
Animals of Orissa. By Epwarp Buiytna, Esq., F.LS. 
In his two volumes on the province of Orissa (1872) Dr. W. W. 
Hunter only slightly notices the more conspicuous animals 
indigenous to that part of India, in three of his appendices; but 
except to a naturalist of Indian experience the local names which 
he employs in many instances carry no sort of information, nor can 
I refer them in every instance to their proper species, although for 
the most part familiar with the ordinary Bengali and Hindustani 
appellations. 
In his “ Statistical Account of Puri,” under the head of “ Animal 
Kingdom,” he informs us that—“In the open part of the country 
the larger beasts have been pretty nearly exterminated. Of the 
following list several are now becoming rare :—Tigers, leopards, 
bison [2.e. gaour, Bos gaurus, often miscalled “ gayal” by sports- 
men in the province], wild cows [i.e. nil-gai, Portax pictus], 
hyenas, bears, and pigs, wild dogs [Canis rutilans], antelopes, 
sambur-deer, hog-deer and kurangas (small deer) [doubtless 
meaning the char-singha, Telracerus quadricornis]. Alligators 
[z. e. crocodiles] swarm in the lower part of the rivers. The sum 
spent in keeping down tigers and leopards does not exceed £5 a 
