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I found the septum of the nose divided but healed and a hole through 

 the nasal orifice slantwise to the joint of the left lower jaw. The joint was 

 fractured and the pieces had come away, but instead a new muscular 

 growth had formed which held the broken end of the lower jaw-bone to the 

 joint. The tiger was in a famished condition, and it was abundantly clear 

 that it was the same beast I had shot and lost seven weeks before. 



W. J. H. BALLANTINE. 



Haflong, North Cachab, Hills, 8th May 1910. 



No. III.— PANTHER FOUND AWAY FROM ITS USUAL HAUNTS. 



The following may perhaps interest your readers. Late in the afternoon 

 of the 4th instant a " shikari " came to tell me that a panther was surround- 

 ed by 60 villagers, about 3 miles from the Cantonment of Ahmedabad. I 

 left at once but the 3 miles proved to be considerably more, and I only 

 reached the village near which the panther had been seen by the " shikari " 

 to find that it had been killed by the villagers who were determined not 

 to lose the chance of getting the reward for his skin. The next morning 

 they brought the dead body on a cart and obtained the Government 

 reward, selling the dead beast as he lay to a native skin-dresser for Rs. 3. 

 The skin, I may add, was much damaged, for the poor beast had been driven 

 about from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., from field to field, without any water, and when 

 quite exhausted clubbed to death with lathies ; a couple of the more plucky 

 villagers rushing in as leaders. It is not often that panthers are to be 

 found in neighbourhoods, such as this part of Guzerat ; and this beast 

 (a fine male) must have strayed from the Hills near " Idar" some 50 miles 

 to the East. 



This is the second time, however, that I have known a panther straying 

 a long distance, from any cover, for in 1904 at Sirsa in the Punjab I 

 followed up a panther that had come a long distance from the nearest 

 Hills (Ulwar), and so little did the villagers realize the power of their visitor 

 that some of them attacked him single-handed when they found him lurking 

 near their goat enclosure and the Sirsa Hospital had 4 cases of bad maul- 

 ing in consequence. 



R. H. HEATH. 



Ahmedabad Camp, 15th June 1910. 



No. IV.— THE CALL OF THE SLOTH-BEAR. 



I notice in last November's number of the Journal (No. 3, Vol. XIX) on 

 page 745, that it is rare to hear Sloth Bears calling. I was in the Billi- 

 garungun Hills, Mysore, shooting last April, and coming back to camp in the 

 evening heard a curious howling some distance off. This my Sholega 



