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pairs, and rather shy. I never succeeded in keeping a Flying 
Squirrel for any length of time, even when brought to me half- 
grown. I have done my best to rear them, but they all pined 
away. The adults are savage and untameable, and bite viciously 
with their chisel-formed incisors. A still handsomer kind, 
magniloquently christened P. magnificus, belongs to the 8.EH. 
Himalayas, and I once, some years afterwards got a single 
individual of the grey kind, P. jfimbriatus, on the Tyne range 
beyond Landour. This specimen I gave to the Calcutta Museum. 
Oosrao was out all day with one of Capt. H.’s men, and they 
brought in a Cheer Pheasant, three brace of Kalij, and a Kakur, 
or Barking Deer, shot close to the house. It was in very poor 
condition, and a tight ligature was found on one of its fore legs, 
evidently the fragment of a snare the creature had been caught in ; 
so shooting it was a mercy. It was a doe, without horns. This 
was the only Kakur obtained hereabouts, as it avoids the pine- 
forests; but delights in tangled undergrowth, oak, or dwarf 
bamboo, jungle, and densely-wooded hill-sides. It is of universal 
distribution at moderate elevations, mostly found at about 4000 
to 5000 ft. 
(To be continued.) 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Davis Lectures, 1886.—A series of lectures upon zoological subjects 
will be given in the Lecture Room in the Zoological Society’s Gardens, 
Regent’s Park, on Thursdays at 5 p.m., commencing June 8rd, as follows ; 
—June 8rd, “ Pigs and their Allies,” by Prof. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S. ; 
June 10th, “'The study of Zoology,” by Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S. ; 
June 17th, “Scorpions,” by Prof. E. R. Lankester, F.R.S.; June 24th, 
Beavers,” by Mr. J. E. Harting, F.L.S.; July Ist, “Some of the ways 
in which Animals breathe,” by Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, M.A.; July 8th, 
“Eyes,” by Mr. F. E. Beddard, M.A.; July 15th, “ Swifts and Swallows,” 
by Mr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. These lectures will be free to Fellows of 
the Society and their friends, and to other visitors to the Gardens. 
MAMMALIA. 
Destruction of Wild Animals in India.— During the year 1885 wild 
beasts and snakes were unusually destructive to human life in the Central 
Provinees of India, there having been an increase of 262 in the number of 
