MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. Ill 



■^'ith which I am familiar. My brother and I saw an animal in thf^ 

 Klong Suan Mak which we both felt sure was a jackal. However 1 

 liave never heard the cry of a jackal, which cannot be mistaken, 

 during 15 years residence in Siam. 



G. F. WESTON E.LWES. 

 March, 1914. 



[There appears to be no doubt tliat the jackal is widely, althoiigli locally, 

 distributed throughout this country. Eds.] 



No. II.— SEASONAL OILY SECRETION IN GAUR 

 OR SELADANG. 



On entering a narrow vallej'^ in Januaiy, 1914, the Karen guide 

 informed me that it was the habitat of a bull Gaur (Bos gauru?) — 

 notorious for some 10 years past, and which never ran away' but 

 frequently chased man. While an the march 1 was fortunate enough 

 to meet the animal and shoot him, and he certainly bore out what 

 the Karen had said in not running away, though, possibly owing 

 to the disadvantage of position, he made no attempt to come up the 

 Bteep bank at us. 



The animal had ample warning of my approach, as two coolies, 

 having got ahead of me, drop})fd their loads and ran back on seeing 

 the great beast standing in the stream and staring up at them. I 

 was followed by some 80 coolies in pretty close order and all were 

 conversing fairly loudly. The 8-bore was brought up from the 

 rear of the line and I went forward to where the man had di-opped 

 their loads, but from that point could only get a head shot, so went 

 on some 8 metres and liad an easy shot at the flank at 20 metres 

 distance. 



The 2 oz. ball, entering high on the right side, passed through 

 the heart and out on the other side, missing all bones 1 believe, though 

 I did not wait to see the animal cut up. 



On being hit he crashed through the elephant grass on the far 

 bank, and died some 20 metres only from the spot at whicii he had 

 previously stood. 



The whole neck and shoulders were covered with an oily 

 secretion, making the black hair of the neck g'isten, and the scrotum 

 and inguinal region were dirty orange yellow, and also very greasy. 



