MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, 531 
Chital— Cervus axis. 
P, 236. There was a head measuring 393 inches in the Officers’ Mess of the 
Shropshire L. I. in Dinapore, in 1911. This was shot in the Northern 
U. P., I think in the Ramnagar jungles. 
Hog Deer— Cervus porcinus. 
P. 242. Heads up to 25% inches have been obtained from the islands in the 
Irrawadi below Prome. 
P. 244, They are to be found in the lower Meping Valley in Siam. 
Thamin— Cervus eldi, 
P. 254. What authority is there for stating that the Siamese race is spotted ? 
I could obtain no confirmation of this in Siam. 
Muntjac— Cervulus muntjac. 
P. 262. (Bottom). ima very old bucks the horns are never shed, but become 
like polished bone and lose the front tine. I obtained two specimens 
of this type in May 1914 in the Yamethin district, Burma. May 
seems to be regular season for shedding the horns, as one buck I shot 
in that month dropped his horns when he fell, while another had 
the tips of the pedicels quite raw still. 
Tenasserim Muntjac—Cervulus fee. 
P. 263. The English name seems a misnomer, as C. few is by no means re- 
stricted to Tenasserim, and is in fact much rarer than C. m. grandi- 
cornis. 
Isaw C. fee, on the Tack Plateau on 30-4-20, and am almost certain 
I saw one on 4-2-20 about half a mile from the same spot. I shot a 
specimen of C. m. grandicornis on the plateau on 2-2-20. 
Wild Pig—Sus cristatus. 
P. 283. I saw wild pig on several occasions in Tenasserim and Siam in the 
first four months of 1920. They were heavily crested with black, 
scantily-haired bodies ; and appeared much lighter built and longer 
legged than any wild pig I have seen in India. 
I saw a sounder high up on the East side of the mountain between 
the west of the Meping about latitude 16 10’N. on 2-4-20. 
Tiger—Felis tigris. 
P. 298. These measurements are unreliable. All old measurements were 
taken over the curves, some from the chin to the tip of tail including 
the hair, and the tape well pressed down into the loose flesh of the 
neck and back. I find that a 5’-4” bear stretches 18 inches or more 
when properly pegged out ; that is without trying to obtain a length 
measurement to boast about afterwards. Tiger and panther skins 
certainly do not stretch less. A ten f>ot tiger, measured straight could 
peg out at not less than 11’-8”. Mrs. Lawrie Johnstone’s tiger may 
have been 10’-6”. General Green’s tiger of 11’-11” which only measured 
5 inches more when pegged out, is ridiculous, The average Kashmiri 
shikari will stretch a 5’-6” bear to 7’-4” in pegging out, if left to him- 
self, and the shikari of the plains who has a master with a passion for 
measuring his sport by inches, will pander to it to the same extent. 
In “ Tiger-slayer by Order ” (Digby Davies) out of over 300 tigers 
killed, the biggest measured 10’- 23’. 
Leopard—Felis pardus. 
P. 317. The illustration is evidently of a badly mounted specimen. No wild 
leopard ever has a big abdomen. I have never seen one open its 
mouth to snarl without wrinkling its cheeks and forehead and parti- 
ally closing its eyes. The cheeks are much too fat and round. The 
double curve in the tail is most curious. A leopard keeps one 
continuous curve when waving or raising its tail. 
