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The late Mr. Sanyal states that in the Calcutta Zoological gardens they are “‘ fed 
on a mixed diet consisting of meat, boiled or raw eggs. plantains, and other 
fruits and bread ; in fact it, like a large civet, eats anything.” 
I have not tried mine with either rats, squirrels, or fruit and bread but did 
with cooked and raw meat. 
It readily eats table scraps when they consist of ordinary fowl, pigeon or 
duck, no matter how they have been cooked, not even objecting to any ; but 
absolutely refuses to touch game whether raw or cooked. I have tried it with 
quail, teal, snipe, sandpipers and godwit, sometimes cooked sometimes raw, 
but they weren’t touched. 
They are said to be easily tamed but though I have had mine over a year now 
it is just as wild as when I got it. It is a most uninteresting animal, remaining 
coiled up in a box all day and only coming out at night and darting back to its 
box if anyone approaches it. 
CHAS. M. INGLIS, 
M.B.O,U., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 
BaGHOWNIE Fry., DarBHanGa, Dt. Brnar, 
26th May 1921. 
No. IV.—A GOOD FEMALE CHINKARA HEAD (G. BENNETT). 
Regarding measurements of the Indian Female Gazelle, it will be interesting 
to note also that His Highness the Maharaja Sahib Bahadur of Dhar has recently 
in one of his tours in the Districts killed a very fine head of a female, the photo 
of which I send as it may be of interest to members. 
The measurements of this Female Gazelle are as follows :— 
Length 8”, circumference 1}?”, and tip to tip 2}”. 
G. B. POWAR. 
Duar, Ist July 1921. 
[Unfortunately the photo will not reproduce well, We are unable therefore 
to publish it but have placed it in the Society’s Album.—Eps. ] 
No. V.—WILD DOGS IN BURMA.* 
This is rather a hardy annual, but there has recently been much correspondence 
in iocal papers regarding wild dogs and “ wolves ” said to have been seen by 
various exalted officials. 'The following notes may therefore be of interest. 
I believe your recent mammal survey only discovered the large wild dog in 
Burma, an animal said to hunt in small packs of six or seven. 
I recently sent you the skin of a wild dog shot by a reliable old Burmese hunter, 
while I was in camp at his village. He killed three and told me next morning 
that there were twenty-thirty feeding on a dead buffalo (died of rinderpest). 
Js not this an unusual number ? 
Another hunter, whom I have known for. years, told me that in the neighbour- 
ing Sadwingyi Reserve, he had seen about eighty feeding on a full grown bull 
Tsaing they had just killed (Several Tsaing have been killed by them recently 
and last year they killed two village cows close to a village). If we divide by two 
to allow for “‘ the little one that would not keep still for him to count it, ” this 
would still give a pack of thirty or forty. 
I thought that only the red dog of the Deccan hunted in such large numbers 
and that the Big Burmese Dog was never more than six—ten to a pack. 
I have myself never seen more than six or seven together, but in this same 
Sadwingyi Reserve I have found fresh droppings (all along a road) of a pack that 
must have numbered far more. 
* See next page. 
