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though the majority of sparrows were given immediately on being killed, two 

 were kept a few hours in the shade before feeding time. 



On the second day the hawk went off in condition unaccountably and died 

 on the 5th day. On opening the crop I found 12 or 15 worms, about 1£ inches 

 long of a transparent pink colour, very like those sometimes seen in horse 

 droppings and I believe are known in dogs as round worms. 



1. Could these worms have been brought by flies into the food or are they 

 more likely to have come in the water the meat was dipped into before feeding? 



2. Is it possible that they could have incubated and grown in two 

 days when the falling off in condition was first noticed by me or is it more 

 likely they were in the hawk when caught ? She was in apparently perfect 

 condition both round and heavy. 



The symptoms during the three days she was ill were — 



1. Excessive thinness followed by weakness in the legs at times ; she 



could not stand up for 5 or 10 minutes ; then a little strength would 

 appear to return. 



2. A fixed stare in the eyes and disinclination to move the head from a 



set position, even though the body was turned. 



3. No appetite. 



4. Food in the crop remained there many hours longer than it should 



under ordinary circumstances in a healthy bird. 



5. No pellet was cast on two occasions after castings had been given. 



6. Droppings were not as frequent as they should have been, but colour 



and consistency quite healthy. 



7. On two occasions I thought I felt something foreign in the crop and 



neck, which did not feel like meat undigested which no doubt was a 

 small collection of these worms, but at that time I had no suspicion 

 of the cause of the illness and did not know that hawks suffered 

 from worms. 



J. S. BOGLE, Capt., 

 Bunji, Kashmir, 26th May 1906. Q. 0. Corps of Guides. 



No. XXXVI. -CANNIBALISM AMONGST PANTHERS AND TIGERS. 



The two following cases of, to my mind, undoubted cannibalism by the large 

 cats may be of interest : — 



On 5th April last, I was out after panthers about 40 miles S. E. of 

 Hyderabad. A wood-cutter came in and reported he had seen a panther on 

 his kill, a goat, in some big rocks. We went out and got on to the ground 

 shortly after 4 p.m. and were pointed out a large mass of square boulders 

 within which a marker then reported the panther asleep. 



I got round on to the flat top of one of these and looking down a crevice 

 could plainly make out the form of a panther lying on his left side about 12 

 feet below. I got a clear shot at him and thought I had killed him instan- 

 taneously as he never turned a hair. After throwing down bits of rock and 



