MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 1017 



No. VI— AN INJURED MONKEY. 



In August 1903, I was marching through heavy jungle one morning during 

 the pouring rain, when I came upon a monkey (P. entelhis) lying just beside 

 the path. When I went up to it, I found that it was impaled upon a broken 

 bit of stump some 12 in. long and about 1 in. in diameter. It was hopelessly 

 injured, and the liver was protruding when I lifted it up. It had evidently 

 missed its hold on the slippery branch and fallen. I have never heard of a 

 similar case. The beast was about 7 months old. 



H, R. G. HASTED. 



Brook House, Suffolk, 5th December 1906. 



No. VII— PANTHER KILL UP A TREE. 



In No. 2 of this year's Journal (Vol. XVII, page 517) there is an account of 

 a panther having placed its kill in a tree, and Mr. Comber, the Honorary 

 Secretary of our Mammal and Bird Section, asks if any member has come 

 across anything similar. I once had a somewhat similar experience. 



In 1903 I was camped at a small village where panthers committed a great 

 amount of damage among goats, and on the first night I had several goats 

 tied up. Next morning one of them was killed, and on going to the spot I 

 found that the hind quarters and stomach had been entirely devoured, and the 

 remainder of the goat had been deposited on the branch of a jack-fruit tree. 

 It was a big tree with no branches for about eight feet. The kill was resting 

 on a fork in one of the lower branches about six feet from the trunk and some 

 nine or ten feet from the ground. I did not disturb it, and, as there was a 

 good moon, I sat up about twenty feet from the tree in order to watch the 

 beast. As bad luck would have it, the night came up very cloudy, and I could 

 see nothing. The panther returned just after dark and made no noise at all 

 in ascending the tree, the first thing I heard being the crunching of bones. 

 After Avaiting about an hour in the hopes of it getting brighter, I fired at the 

 sound and heard the panther drop to the ground and make off. 



H. R. G. HASTED. 

 Brook House, Suffolk, bth December 1906. 



No. VIII. —ENCOUNTER BETWEEN A SNAKE AND LIZARD. 



Apropos an article of mine in a recent issue of this Journal on the enemies 

 of snakes, Mr. L. V. Baghame has favoured me with an account of a most 

 interesting encounter he witnessed in Upper Burma (Trindat), in which a 

 lizard attacked and vanquished a snake. The lizard was the " Tuctoo" {Geclco 

 verticillatus) so familiarly met with in Burmese houses, and the snake was a 

 rat-snake (Zamenis mucosas') between 4 and 5 feet in length. 



The snake was a frequent caller in Mr. Baghame's house, where its visits 

 were encouraged with a view to keeping down the rats that infested the 

 thatched roof. 

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