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the rage or fright or delight or all three combined that the bat feels. It is 

 certainly a noisy bat and it takes little to make it squeak. The breeding 

 has not been observed, nor the roosting places ; I think it roosts in holes 

 in tree trunks. Colour : males are darker coloured altogether than females. 



C. PRIMROSE. 

 KuRSEONG, IZtTi September 1915. 



No. III.— THE PAINTED BAT {KERIVOULA PICT A, Pall) 

 IN TIRHUT. 



Though I have now been collecting many kinds of creatures in this 

 District over, a period of a number of years, it is only lately that I have 

 seen this species. Some days ago my brother H. A. Inglis whilst hunting 

 for moths in some scrub jungle caught a specimen of this bat in his net and 

 kindly sent it to me. A few days later whilst staying with him we 

 came across a few others in the same jungle but failed to catch any. The 

 specimen caught was not as bright as those I have seen in Assam. 



CHAS M. INGLIS. 

 Lahebia Saeai, 9>th August 1915. 



No. IV.— NATIVE SCALPED BY A SLOTH BEAR 

 {MEL URSUS LABIA TUS). 



As the following case of a man having had his scalp taken off by a bear 

 may interest the readers of the Journal, I give below the following details: — 



A fortnight ago when up in Mount Abu I heard of the man, a Tak by caste, 

 and went to the Adam's Memorial Hospital to see him. He appeared to be 

 well on the way to recovery and although tottering on his feet from having 

 been long in bed was able to move about. 



It appeared that the man who lives at the village of " Uria," some 4 miles 

 north of the Cantonment, was proceeding on the morning of August 26th to 

 take some grain to his fellow villager tending cattle 4^ miles still further 

 along the Range, when in crossing a dry nullah a she-bear and her two 

 half-grown cubs rushed out and mauled him, leaving the man face down- 

 wards and insensible. He was found by his fellow villager just after he 

 regained consciousness and carried on a charpoy to the Adam's Hospital. 



I append below the Assistant Surgeon's Report on his injuries which has 

 come to hand this day : — 



a 



(a) A lacerated wound below the left eye-brow just about a hair- 



breadth above the eye ball which narrowly escaped being 

 injured. 



(b) A large lacerated wound about 6" x 8" over and behind the 



right shoulder deep into the muscles which with the edges of 

 the wound and skin were much torn and showed a ragged 

 appearance. 



(c) The whole of the scalp cap was missing. The bones of the skull 



were quite exposed as though scraped with a knife. Shreds of 

 scalp were hanging round the head over the forehead and neck, 

 and although these were cleaned, replaced and sutured, still a 

 circular space of about 6 to 8 inches in diameter was left bare 

 and exposed. 

 17th September 1915. — The wound over the eye has completely 

 healed up. 



