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Unfortunateiy the siirvej^or who procurecl the animal, kept 

 onl}'' the skin without head or legs. He informed me that lie had, in 

 1912, shot this animal in the Hue Sut Yhai in N. Lat 12°10/ 



Sus cristatas. The Indian Wild Boar. 



Some doubt has been expressed as to the identification of pig 



obtained in the Ratburi district ; and pigs obtained in lower Tenas- 



serira by the Bombay N. H. S. Mammal Survey have been classified as 



the smaller species viz : — Sus jubakis — the Tenasserim Wild Pig. 



Unfortunately the weights and measurements of these specimens are 



not given. The measurements of a boar and sow obtained in Eatburi 



district are given here, together with those giA^en by Blanford for the 



Indian species, and it will be seen that Ratburi specimens are well up 



to the Indian — sows being constantly smaller than boars. 



Fauna B. 1. 1^ Length Height Skull basal Zygomatic Weight. 



Boar. j 60 ni. 28-36 13.75 7.3 200-300 lbs. 



Petchaburi. 1 ._ . ^o • ^- ^ i oaa 



-o y ^' !"• 33 in. — — estimated 300. 



Jtsoar. J 



Sai Yoke. Sow. 52 in. 3U in. 11.9 in. 5.4 in. 175 lbs. 



Further skulls are desirable, with body measurements and 



weights if possible. 



Oct., 1915. 



K. G. GAIRDNER. 



No. IT.— NOTE ON SAMBAR ( CERVUS UNICOLOR ) 

 SHEDDING ITS HORNS. 



As there seems to be considerable diversity of opinion as to how 

 often sambar shed their horns, the following ma}" be of interest. 



A stag which was caught when a fe\v months old and obtained 

 b}^ the present owner at the age of 2 j^ears, has for the last four years 

 while in his possession shed its horns annually in August. 



The horns have not appreciably become bigger wath each 

 successive year, but this year they appear to show signs of being- 

 larger than before. In 1912 the left horn had an extra tine just 

 above the brow tine, but this has not appeared since. 



According the Blandford and Lj^lekker wild stags in India 

 do not shed their horns regularly every season, and it would be 

 interesting to know in what months sambar with fully developed 

 horns have been shot in Siam. 



P. A. R. BARRON. 

 Nov., 1915. 



No. III.— A NEW SNAKE FOR BANGKOK. 



Since completing my articles on the Snakes of Bangkok, another 

 species has been added to the list, viz., Lycodon laoensis, caught last 

 month beneath some fire-wood at Bangkok Noi. The descriptions of 

 this snake, taken no doubt from museum specimens, give the colour as 

 being " dark brown above, with a whitish cross-band on the occiput 



