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mid-day meal. After food and an hour's rest we again took up the tracks of the 

 foar elephants which led us a " Follow the man from Cook's " dance through 

 half-burnt khine until we came to some very high kbine bordering on jungle. 

 Here we proceeded with great caution. The tracker led, I followed, and then 

 came the following with the pop-guns just in the middle of a long tunnel of 

 khine, in which it would have been quite impossible to shoot. A rushing 

 sound about 5 feet on the left indicated an elephant, much too close to be 

 pleasant. Fortunately the beast was moving away from us and not towards 

 us, or the sequel might have been different. With difficulty we extricated 

 ourselves from the khine as soon as possible, and sought a small nulla which 

 separated the khine from the jungle and along this we raced to intercept the 

 elephant before he should enter the jungle. Arriving breathless we again 

 plunged into the khine, but not before the practised eye of the tracker had 

 caught a glimpse of the tusker as he passed through some low khine. Judg- 

 ing with an unerring instinct the place where the tusker would come out, the 

 tracker led the way to a small clearing 5 yards in radius centred by a small 

 tree about 15 feet high and about as thick as an oar handle. Here we formed 

 up to see the tusker emerge three seconds later. He was a big beast 9 feet 

 high and as he was standing on raised ground he appeared to be only 15 yards 

 off. I aimed at the nasal base of the trunk, and as the 8-bore spoke the 

 tusker tottered, turned, and fell. The tracker and retinue, however, loosed off 

 immediately, which drove off a large female who came up just in time to see 

 the tusker fall. 



The tracker ran in and gave the tusker his coup de grace by a shot 

 from the '577 through the chest, but it was a work of supererogation, for he 

 had already breathed his last, and I found that my steel-pointed bullet had 

 hit just below the nasal base and passed through it in an upward direction. 



It was now 2 p.m., so after I had photographed the dead beast with the 

 tracker sitting upon him holding my 8-bore, and the tracker had cut off the 

 trunk we worked our way back to my camp, leaving the task of cutting up 

 the animal until the next day. 



Unfortunately the tusks turned out to be small, together weighing only 

 about 50 lbs,, but the front feet were 18 inches in diameter indicating a 

 height of 9 feet, and the 40 men who turned up to eat the beast the 

 following day were not able to turn him over and had to content themselves 

 with the meat on one side only. 



E. R. JARDINE. 



Eangoon, 26th June 1901. 



No, XV.— ARTIFICES PRACTISED BY BULBULS. 

 On the 24th of May I was walking at Mahabuleshwar, when I came upon 

 a young Red-whiskered Bulbul {Otocampsa fuscicaudata) which had left the 

 nest before it was able to fly. The parents were -twittering about in great 



