MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 535 
belonging to Major-Genl. H.C. Tytler and shot by him in Manipur. The points I 
noticed in comparing them with Burmese heads were: the beam was much 
thinner and lighter, the brow-tines made a strong angle with the beam (as in Mr. 
Thomas’s brucei), and the brow-tines diverged considerably ; whereas in most 
Burmese specimens they are almost parallel. I mentioned these points to Genl. 
Tytler and, from what he said and from other heads I have seen, individual 
variation in such minor characters is as great in the Manipur as in the Burmese 
Thamin. 
Injury feigning habits of Birds. (Vol. XXVIII, No. 1, Misc. Not: No. XVI.) 
Several instances have been recorded in the Society’s journal of * injury feign 
ing’ practiced by birds when danger threatens the nest. Mr. E. H. Aitken re- 
corded a similar incident in connection with the Southern Red-Whiskered Bulbul 
(O. fuscicaudata) in Vol. XIV, page 162, and Mr. W. Cumming noticed the same 
feature in the White-cheeked Bulbul (Molpastes leucotis), Vol. XIV, p. 611; Major 
A. Begbie described it in connection with the Bengal Red-whiskered Bulbul 
(O. emeria), Vol. XVII, p. 580, and Mr. W.S. Millard in a feotnote records having 
witnessed similar behaviour in the Madras Red-Vented Bulbul (1. hemorrhous). 
The mass of evidence goes to show that the injury feigning habit is practiced 
generally by Bulbuls of the genus Molpastes and Otocompsa. A very interesting 
series of letters were published in the journal as to the reasons for this injury 
feigning habits of birds. We would recommend reference to D. Dewar’s notes, 
Vol. XVIII, p. 916, and the notes by Major H. Delme Radcliffe, Stanley Pers- 
house, Major A. Beghie, Vol. XIX, pages 526, 528 and 531. 
No. III.—AN INTERESTING PANTHER INCIDENT 
(With a photo.) 
