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ventilation. There was then a large entrance hole, a tunnel, about 16 feet 
long, running quite straight at right-angles to the entrance at a depth of 
3 feet & inches, and an enlarged space at the end from which the tunnel 
extended upwards again, narrowing at the surface to a small orifice. The 
earth was an old one, and the mound at the entrance, made by the excavated 
earth, was grown over with old grass, The tunnel was only 14 inches high, 
and must have been made, I think, by wild dogs. It was too low for a 
hyena and not at all like a porcupine’s hole, The puppies (3 males and 2 
females) were at least a week old. Three had ticks on them. They were of 
a uniform dark brown colour, s'ightly yellow abcut the neck, and were 
exactly like pointer puppies, as will be seen from the photograph, When 
handled, they whined like a domestic pup, and when put down on the ground, 
went to sleep. I tried to keep them alive, but could not get a foster-mother. 
They did not thrive on tinned milk, which was all I had to give them. 
After five days I destroyed them, as they were slowly starving, They had 
not opened their eyes. The bitch measured 543 inches, of which the tail 
was 17 inches, height 183 inches. She was younger thau the dog, and there 
were a few white hairs at the end of her tail, A small quantity of Samber 
hair in her intestines was the only trace of food. I have long been of 
opinion that carnivorous animals can go many days without eating, and this 
seems to prove it, for these two dogs had no doubt killed a Samber together. 
Between the 27th and 30th it is certain the female had eaten nothing, and it 
must have been seveval days before the 27th that the Samber was killed. I 
had left the carcase of the male, with the skin on, lying 100 yards from the 
earth on the 27th. It was still there on the 30th untouched, and quite 
fresh as. the weather was cold. A small hawk or two had been picking the 
flesh off the ribs, but the vultures hed not found it, nor had the female wild 
dog touched it. My men sai@ wild dogs would not eat one of their own 
kind, Another matter of interest is that the male was with the female 
when she was lying up with the puppies. I had been walking over these 
hills for some days without seeing Samber, but no sooner had I left the 
earth and walked a quarter of a mile than a good stag jumped up within 
30 yards of me and cantered up some open ground in front, an easy shot, 
My rifle was unloaded, as I never thought of seeing deer in such close 
proximity to wild dogs. 
ar eee J. D. INVERARITY. 
_ Bompay, January, 1900, 
No, IL—THE LARGE-BARRED OWLET (GLAUCIDIUM 
CUCULOIDES, VIGORS) CAPTURING QUAIL ON THE WING, 
In January last,during the two or three days when the whole of the 
‘Kangra Valley as far south as the Beas River at Dehra was covered with 
“snow, Standing in the verandah of my house with two or three friends, we 
