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runs in a good second, and the tiger does not disdain to follow the lead. When 

 detected, they rush wildly away, or even towards you if it happens to be a tiger 

 in a bad temper and possessed of sufficient courage. I have already replied to 

 some of Mr. Macleod's remarks on the practice of alarm calls by writing in our 

 magazine on the persistent way deer remain in the vicinity of a known danger. 

 But my first difficulty still remains, and I more than ever want to know why 

 in a country where deer can smell, they do not notice a man in a tree, and 

 why, when that man can smell a tiger, the tiger cannot or will not return the 

 compliment. I believe that the explanation is simply referable to the rising 

 of scent, for I have proved that the same results would not follow if one 

 were posted behind a tree instead of on it. 



S. EARDLEF-WILMOT. 

 Lucknow, April, 1898. 



No. XVII.— THE « KOL-BHALU/ 



I think it may be taken as proved by what Messrs. Eardley-Wilmot and 

 Wallinger have written in their papers published. in No. 3 of the Society's 

 Journal, Vol. XI, that one of the animals that makes the cry of the KoLBhalu 

 is a jackal. But my experience leads me to believe that there are other 

 animals that make a similar cry, and it would be interesting to, know if this 

 can be confirmed by any one else ! One morning some years ago in the wet 

 weather I was climbing the hills at a place called Ubliada-Mogra in the 

 Igatpuri Taluka of the Nasik District. I had left my camp before it was 

 light and reached the foot of the ridge running up to the high hill of 

 Pimpalgaon. I had three dogs with me, two greyhounds and a fox terrier, when 

 suddenly about half way up the ridge I heard the cry of the Kol-Bhalu. I a^ 

 once set my dogs off and they started three animals, ran them about a 

 quarter of a mile, and then disappeared with them in the jungle. After some 

 little time my dogs came back, but they had not tackled the animals, although 

 accustomed to running jackals and killing them. I am sure they did not 

 tackle for they were not bitten at all, nor were their mouths blood-stained. 

 I had a very good view of these animals, for they were not fifty yards off 

 when the dogs brought them into view. Although dark when I left my 

 camp, it was quite light by the time I got to the foot of the hill, and I could 

 see quite distinctly. They were in a dip the other side of the small ridge 

 I was climbing when I heard the cry, and though not in sight when the cry 

 was uttered, still one of them must have been responsible for it. They 

 were reddish animals, not so red as a wild dog, and they had reddish bushy 

 tails. They were not unlike jackals in shape, but appeared to mo to be much 

 larger, and they were decidedly not jackals. 



Kaewae, April, 1898. W. G-. BETHAM, 



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