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operators. I was staying at a Dak Bungalow near Chini-Bushahr State, 

 Himalayas, and saw the performance from the Dak Bungalow verandah. The 

 noise made by the squirrel when boring the hole was like that of a minature 

 steam saw. The Dak Bungalow Chowkidar pointed out the squirrel to me 

 as it sat on the branch of a large walnut tree and told me that the holes in 

 the walnuts were made by flying squirrels only. No other kind of rodent 

 eat walnuts in that way. I could see the squirrel with a nut in his forepaws 

 rasping away like a sewing machine, but I could not see well enough to 

 notice whether the teeth or tongue extracted the nut. 1 think the tongue, 

 because it is only a flexible tongue that can go round corners for removing 

 the whole of the nut. I picked up a shell just as it dropped from the 

 squirrel's paws and found it most thoroughly cleaned out. 



I was told by the Dak Bungalow Chowkidar that flying squirrels come 

 round for walnuts only on moonlight nights when they can see and choose 

 i;heir nuts. I am afraid this information is very belated. 



A. CONLEY, 



Jamacia, 12th September 1912. 



No. VIII.— RECOVERY OF ANIMALS FROM INJURIES. 



Having seen the article on ^'Recovery of animals from injuries " by 

 Mr. W. Gr. H. Ballantine in your Volume XXI, No. 3, if it will be of any 

 interest to your readers, I may mention that I was present at the bagging 

 of a Sambur with at least half a dozen slugs embedded under the skin, the 

 result of an old shot. The skin had completely healed over the lead pellets, 

 showing no external marks of any kind, and the beast did not seem in the 

 least inconvenienced and was going very strong before being bagged. 



Another instance I can remember is of a boar I bagged last year. He 

 was also quite game. On mascerating his skull for the purpose of mounting 

 I discovered that he had a slug embedded in the nasal bone a few inches 

 from the tip. When properly mascerated the pellet and a piece of bone 

 dropped out. The outer skull and the tissues had completely healed shewing 

 no external injury before the masceration. I have the skull and the piece 

 of bone but I have lost the pellet. 



SYDNEY A. CHRISTOPHER. 

 Rangoon, Ath September 1912. 



With reference to the notes on "Recovery of animals from injuries" 

 appearing in the Society's Journals the following may be of interest. Last 

 December, I spent some days after Markhor (Capra falconeii) at Sheikh 

 Budin, and my shikari informed me that there was a one-horned Markhor 

 on the hill. Sure enough while stalking another animal one day my shikari 

 pointed out a one-horned animal on the opposite side of a deep but narrow 

 nullah. Although he was scarcely of shootable size, I killed him thinking 

 him to be a " freak." On closer inspection, however, I found that one horn 

 and standard was broken off on a level with the general surface of the skull 

 having a still suppurating wound on the bone of skull, rather larger in 

 diameter than the base of the horn. The animal appeared to be quite 

 young and was very active. One would have thought a blow of suflicient 

 force to cause this injury would have knocked the beast out altogether. 

 Possibly the original injury caused a suppurating wound with subsequent 

 sloughing of the horn and bone. Since then while shooting in Baltistan I 

 have seen a one-horned ibex. In place of the second horn was a stump, a 



