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chance pay another .visit, I remained quiet, and to my surprise just as I was 

 getting ready for a long spell, I heard him coming back. This time he walked 

 straight to the goat aud commenced dragging or trying to drag it away, but 

 finding he could not do so, he walked about five paces off and sat down and 

 looked at the kill, I fired again and missed him. This time, instead of 

 bolting up the hill, he, as far as I could guess by the noise, only went ofE 

 about 30 yards. As I had given my men orders to turn up with lights, &g., 

 at 10 p.m., I decided to stay up in the machan till they came. Imagine my 

 surprise when, about ten minutes after my last shot, I saw the panther stand- 

 ing over the kill but looking up towards the machan. I was resolved, however, 

 not to fire too quickly and waited. He would not touch the kill but stood 

 over it for quite ten minutes or such it seemed to me. I then let him have 

 another shot. He dashed off, making straight for the tree I was on which 

 however he passed, and I think he made for the cover he had originally come 

 out of. It was about 8 o'clock when I fired my third shot. I still had two 

 hours to Wait. About 9 o'clock the panther again put in an appearance 

 gnag straight to the kill and commencing to feed. I waited for a few 

 minutes, fired and missed, when he went straight of£ up the hill. 



I was using a '577 rifle with a bit of cotton wool for my foresight, and on 

 e-amining the spot next morning found that my shots went over him. 



I firmly believe it was the same panther that turned up each time. 



I should be obliged if any of your shiJcari readers would let me know 

 through the Journal whether it is the rule or exception for panthers to be 

 so daring. 



GEORGE E. BRIGHT, 



Raipdr, C.P. 



No, YI.— THE MIGRATION OF BUTTERFLIES IN THE 

 KANGRA VALLEY. 



Butterflies of widely separated genera have constantly been recorded as 

 having been observed in different parts of India pursuing an almost uninter- 

 rupted flight in a fixed direction, the reason of their so doing is not however 

 quite clear. On the 12th of August 1900, I observed a very large flight of 

 Catopsilia crocale, Cramer, interspersed with a few examples of C. injranthe, 

 Linn^us, travelling in an easterly direction, the wind at the time being from 

 the S.-E. All the well-known varieties of the former were procured by me, 

 females being nearly, if not quite, as numerous as males. Of C. pyranihe I 

 only obtained females and saw no males on the wing. The flight lasted all 

 diy aud numbers of the insects were to be seen at a great height above the 

 ground all travelling in the same direction. Occasionally a specimen or two 

 might be seen stopping for a very brief space on a flower, but for the most 

 part the flight was a continuous one. My examples pointed to their having 

 only recently emerged from the i^iipa^ On the 7th of April IDOl, another 



