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pulling goats and calves ovit of the huts. I eventually bagged him on a 

 pitch dark night with a lethal bullet using a radium foresight ; he had 

 killed a quarter of a mile from the edge of the jungle within 30 yards of a 

 village and was killed half an hour after dusk. He taped seven feet four 

 as he lay and was a very heavy beast. 



E. BROOK-FOX. 

 JuNAGADH, May 26th, 1913. 



No. II.— THE BROWN PALM-CIVET IN NORTH KANARA. 



While collecting near Castle Rock in the middle of October last Mr. S. 

 H. Prater, assistant in the Society's Museum, shot an example of the brown 

 Palm-Civet [Paradoxurus jerdoni). According to Blanford in the " Fauna of 

 British India " this species has only been found for certain in the Palni 

 and Nilgiri Hills. It was not obtained by Mr. G. C. Shortridge in North 

 Kanara which points to it only being a rare straggler in that district. 



N. B. KINNEAR. 

 Bombay, 28^ May 1913. 



No. III.— CHINKARA SUFFERING FROM GUINEA- WORM. 



Early last March I shot a chinkara {Gazella bennetti) buck ; the first shot 

 struck him rather far back, the second through the shoulder ; he was in good 

 condition but the coat was staring and patchy. On examining him closely 

 I noticed that the blood flowing from the wounds contained half a dozen 

 thread-like semi-transparent worms varying in length from 2 to 5 inches 

 all alive and vigorous ; the animal was hallaled and eaten by the Mohamed- 

 an forest guards. 



In Junagadh State — particularly in the south — guinea-worm is a common 

 complaint amongst all classes, occurring chiefly in the families of those who 

 draw their drinking water from step wells or Vaos. 



Dr. Dave of Junagad tells me that from my description the Chinkara was 

 undoubtedly suffering from guinea-worm. 



This fact may be of interest to the medical members. 



E. BROOK-FOX. 

 Junagad, May 12th, 1913. 



No. IV.— THE COLOURATION OF THE EYES OF THE 

 DOMESTICATED BUFFALO. 



While I was shooting in the Central Provinces during March this year, 

 I was very much struck by the number of buffaloes I met which had the 

 abnormal pale blue iris to the eye. Not only this, but some animals had 

 one eye normal and the other of the abnormal colour, while others had 

 both eyes a sort of mixture of the two, a small segment of the eye only 

 being of the normal or abnormal colour in such cases. I have often 

 noticed this abnormal colouring of the buffalo's iris before, but never to 

 such an extent and never before as partial or in only one eye. 



C. R. PITMAN, 



Camp, C. P., 27th Punjabis. 



bth April 1913. 



