MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 791 



among the " Miscellaneous Notes " of the Journal. The details o£ 

 measurements, etc., I give below : — 



Over curve. Circumference. Straight. 

 Left horn 53" 10*" 33^" 



Right horn. 18" 11" 



Shot, 25th May 1913, below Eondu (Baltistan). 



W. M. LOGAN HOME, Oapx., 



112th Infantry. 



NowsHERA, N. W. F. p., Sth December 1913. 



[To this note Capt. Logan Home added in a later letter (10th January 1914), 

 that he had been informed by the Secretary of the Game Preservation Department, 

 Kashmir, that the unbroken horn was the record head for Baltistan proper. — Eds.] 



No. VII.— HOW WILD BOARS FIGHT. 



In the September number of the Journal of our Society I see an interest- 

 ing note about the wild boars and how they fight. I have several times 

 seen fights. 



Once, in Algeria, many years ago, I was waiting for a panther in a 

 clearance of very thick jungle. It was sandy ground at this place and 

 the opening, under a bright moonlight, was nearly as clear as daylight. 

 I was sitting on the ground, screened by some branches, with my feet in 

 a little gully cut by running water at the very edge of the clear space,, 

 which might have been, say, twenty yards broad by thirty or forty. 



At about eleven, I heard, all at once, a sudden row in the jungle close by 

 and some grunts of wild boars. My first idea was that the panther was- 

 just attacking a boar. But as it lasted for some while, I saw, I was mistaken,, 

 but was at a loss to account for the noise. Presently a rush in the jvingle 

 to my right and the swaying of some branches quite close to me, with 

 more grunts, made me feel that my shelter would have been more comfort- 

 able if stronger. I then saw a large boar backing out in the clear space 

 suddenly stop and charge full speed into the thicket out of which he had 

 come out. Then more grunts and row in the wood. This was very- 

 puzzling, but after a short time and a dead silence, a large boar walked 

 out in the open space just in front of me and stood motionless, head low 

 and hair standing on end on the back. Almost directly another, about the 

 same size, came out trotting and the first one charged at him as straight 

 as a cannon ball. They kept fighting by tiirns for certainly a quarter of 

 an hour sometimes quite near my hiding place and sometimes in the 

 jungle. I did not care to shoot them on account of my panther which 

 I was afraid would be scared away. These two boars were grand chaps : 

 fully two hundred and fifty pounds weight, each of them seemed exactly 

 the same size and I had a good look at them. 



Evidently, when boars fight, they go at each other full tilt, head rather 

 high, and they nearly always both rear up like horses on their hind legs 

 when coming into contact, both chins touching and trying to get at the 

 other for a broadside swing. Then they stop and stand motionless- 

 a few yards apart for a rest. At this time they never utter a sound. 

 The grunting takes place only, when they touch each other. After 

 a short rest one can see the fringe of hair on the back bristling 

 and the boars munching a few times ; then they appear to stiffen 

 1 their body and raise themselves on tip toe, the fore legs seem tO' 

 a ve at this time a sort of quivering motion and as soon as one o^ 



