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proximity, and I half thought I had been pursuing a myth. On peering round 

 the trunk of the tree, however, I saw a very emaciated buck with one crumpled 

 horn (the right) who uttered a f«eble ' baaa ' but made no effort to get up. 



On closer inspection I found that the horn had grown in a curve right round 

 mid penetrated the centre of the eyeball which it had destroyed, and continued 

 it* growth inward towards the brain. There was a large (sloughing wound, with 

 caries of the bone, about 3 inches in diameter, and the poor beast was in the 

 la>t extremity of weakness and on the verge of death. I put it out of its pain, 

 and on examination found that the right testicle was much atrophied and dis- 

 torted while the scrotum showed the cicatrix of an old wound. 



Kolhapur, \8th November 1906. * "W. B. FERRIS, Col. 



No. XXXV.— ABNORMAL SAMBAR HORNS. 



As it may be of interest I send you a photograph of a couple of abnormal 

 sambar horns. 



That on the right was shot in Assam ; the other was killed by a tiger in the 

 Western Dm. 



Gaya, 30th May 1906. F. FIELD, 



