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No. IV.— HYENAS HUNTING WITH JACKALS. 



The night before last a hyaana visited my camp accompanied by a jackal. 

 My shikari and other servants saw them quite distinctly in the faint moon- 

 light as they came very close to the camp — the jackal keeping just behind the 

 hyaena. I "was at dinner and heard the jackal howl. My shikari came up 

 and told me the hysena was close by, so I went towards the cook-house and 

 saw him followed by a jackal cantering past. I had a shot at the hyaena and 

 missed him, but he came again an hour afterwards unaccompanied and I 

 rolled him over with a charge of S S Gr. I have read of tigers having their 

 attendant jiickal but have not heard of a hyaena and jackal hunting together. 

 It gave me great satisfaction to encompass this one's death as he is credited 

 with killing two of my predecessor's dogs. They went down an earth after 

 him and never came out again. 



E. O'BRIEN. 

 Camp Velan, 

 Amreli, Kathiawae. 



No. v.— STRANGE BEHAVIOUR OF A PANTHER. 

 In Part I Vol. XII, Mr. Lester gave an account of the strange behaviour of 



a panther. A very similar occurrence happened at D the other evening, 



2nd February. It was first reported to me about the 15th January that a man- 

 eating panther had been doing a lot of damage on the outskirts of D— and 

 on making enquiries I found that two men and a woman had been mauled 

 and that one of the former died on the 31st, or sixteen days after he had been 

 mauled. I could find no evidence of the man-eating part of the story, but 

 think that the brute emboldened by constant success, viz., picking off goats 

 and dogs from the compounds, had come to regard man as a very indifferent 

 animal. However I determined on sitting up for him ; so on the 1st instant 

 two goats were sent out to be tied up within:a quarter of a mile of each 

 other at the foot of the hill behind the Railway Station. On visiting the 

 spot next morning I found one of the goats had been killed and only a few 

 bones left, but I found panther pugs near by. I sent my men out to build a 

 machan and was sitting up by 5-30 p.m. I thought it quite likely the panther 

 would turn up before dark, although there were a lot of huts within 150 yards 

 of the kill. Just before dark, however, a couple of men came up to the goat 

 with the intention of carrying it off, thinking, I suppose, it was a stray one. 

 The men had not been gone fifteen minutes when I heard a noise at the back of 

 the machan, and on looking round saw the panther coming out of a cover not 

 20 yards from the mac^aw and a little below it. I was afraid to turn round 

 and fire thinking he would see me and be off, so I waited and in about 

 five minutea saw him kill. Immediately after killing he looked up at the 

 machan. I fired and to my disgust heard him going off up the hill. I might 

 say it was just too dark to see my foresight clearly. Thinking he might by 



