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the khaki-coloured bulls. I can only point out that, as far as my personal ex- 
perience goes and that of others with whom I have discussed the matter, the 
khaki bulls almost invariably carry a long, wide pair of horns of inferior girth 
to those of the darker and grey bulls. I must leave it to others to reconcile their 
existence in the same area with the other types. 
Major Evans writes of an encounter he had with black Tsine bulls in Upper 
Burma, and there is no doubt that such individuals occur occasionally in that 
country, which points to the cool winter months serving asa check on the 
melanistic tendency of the males of the species, no such check occurring in the 
more southerly area of the habitat of Bos sondaicus. 
I fully agree with Major Evans in thinking an old bull Tsine is one of the most 
sporting of big game. His fast rate of feeding, disconcerting habit of lying down 
at odd times in the middle of his morning feed, and the fact that he always selects 
his resting place so as tolook back onhis tracks, make him an adversary 
worthy of every effort and necessitates the employment of unceasing watch- 
fulness and patience. Add the spice of risk which attends the hunting 
and any sportsman will understand why I place him first amongst the fifty odd 
species of big game which I have shot. 
C. H. STOCKLEY, 
Major, 66th Punjabis. 
[The biggest Tsine head in our collection, givenus by Mr. A. J. A. Jardine 
measures :— 
Length JO inches. 
Girth 153 #3 
Spread 41 9 Epitors.] 
No. VIL—SOME MEASUREMENTS OF BIG GAME. 
Height at shoulder. Length. Girth. Weight. 
Inches. Inches. Inches. Lbs. 
Burhel, O. nahura 1 a 352 543 41k 131 
; 2 2 ee 344 524 38h 118 
ie S uy 35 54 39 125 
Serow, C. sumatrensis 382 564 40 ae 
Tibetan Gazelle, G. iciicondata 24 4] 26 43 
25 42 28 41 
Himalayan Thex, Capra sibirica 40 374 484 196 
oa zh = 374 254 463 188 
The above measurements were all taken in the summer of 1905 except the 
Serow, which was shot in Kishtwar in April 1911. The Burhel and Tibetan 
Gazelle were shot in Ladakh, the Ibex in Baltistan. 
The light weight of the second and bigger gazelle can be accounted for by the 
fact that I had wounded-and lost it two days previously in a snow-storm, and 
only succeeded in finding and finishing it two days later. 
The first Burhel on the list was very much above average size, and had horns 
282 inches in length. 
C. H. STOCKLEY, 
Major. 
