MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



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No. III.— AN ABNORMAL CHINKARA HEAD. 



( With an Illustration.) 



Since anything out of the ordinary always attracts notice, lam forwarding 

 photographs of a Chink (Gazella bennetti) with an abnormal head which I 

 shot on the 21st August last, not far from a village called Ramania in Kutch. 

 The left horn had grown downwards and had, evidently owing to its 

 pressure, entirely destroyed the animal's eye ; the eyelids were also closed 



but were quite intact. This horn was not firm at its base and shook a little, 

 but one cannot say at what stage of its growth it had taken the unnatural 

 twist, though I think it probable that it had been injured at its root during 

 its early growth. The right horn measured llf inches and the left (abnor- 

 mal) one 12| inches and it will be noticed that although the latter had 

 taken a wrong direction, it had still otherwise kept its natural shape. The 

 Chinkara was in good condition. 



Bhxjj, 30^ September 1910. R. K. 



No. IV. 



-HARDWICKES HEDGEHOG {ERINACEUS COLLARIS) 

 AT FATEHGARH. 



I find the following entry in my notes and as it is interesting I send it 

 for record. 



At Fatehgarh, U. P., on 18th June 1905, I was brought in a live male 

 specimen of E. collaris by my grass-cutter. He got it on the left bank of 



