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nearly broke my leg, but I presently came up to it, with the blood pouring 
from its mouth, it having been hit through the lungs, I killed it with my 
12-bore with a shot in the neck, Some days afterwards we saw a couple of 
large Rhinos going up a hill, and following them up came upto them in 
some thick scrub-jungle. They were feeding, and the first thing I saw was 
the horn of the big male coming bobbing along straight towards me about 
forty yards off. Having, after my first experience, no faith in head shots, I 
was rather in a dilemma, but taking advantage of a slight change of direction, 
when I saw apiece of his neck and shoulder, I let fly, andas he wheeled 
round and bolted gave him the other barrel, which so damaged his hind leg 
that we came up to him about half a-mile further on. My friend put ina 
couple of bullets from his *5(00, and as he charged I broke his shoulder with 
the 12-bore, We had a lively five minutes or so with him in the bushes, and 
then I got close up and finished him off with a shot in the neck, As we did 
not want to kill an unnecessary number of these fine beasts we only went 
after one more, We stalked him together in some grass jungle, and fired 
together at him at eighty yards, The ‘500 express took him in the neck, the 
12-bore just behind the shoulder, and he sank down on his knees as dead as 2 
stone. It would appear from the above that though the head shot, except 
with very heavy artillery, is not of much use, a shot behind the shoulder, as 
was proved in three of the cases mentioned, is pretty fatal, and that it is quite 
possible to give a good account of Rhino without hitting below the belt, 
H, D. OLIVIER, Lrevr,-Co1., R.E., F.zs. 
Bomeay, August, 1900. 
No, XV.—THE EASTERN PINTAILED SAND GROUSE (PTERO- 
CLES ALCH ATUS) BREEDING IN INDIA, 
I cannot see either in Oates, Jerdon, or Hume and Marshall any record of 
the Hastern Pintailed Sand Grouse (Péerocles alchatus) breeding in India, 
which I think I may claim to have proved breeds in the Peshawar Valley, 
Two days ago, eggs were brought me by a man, who declared one was that 
of the Common and the other that of the Pintailed Sand Grouse, Doubting 
his word I made arrangements to go out this morning with him and see if 
I could gather any information for myself. I first went to the place where 
these Sand Grouse water, where I found, close to a village called “ Kasim,” the 
Common Sand Grouse flighting in in packs and a very few pairs, while to my 
surprise the Pintails all came in in pairs (I saw 5 or 6 pairs), I shot one pair 
of the latter, and then proceeded to search a few miles further on in a vast 
open plain for nests. J only found two nests, each containing three eggs of 
the Common Sand Grouse ; in each case I approached so close to the bird on 
the nest that there was no necessity to shoot it in order to identify it, On 
my return I dissected the female Pintail Sand Grouse, and found an egg inside 
