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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 691 
The peculiar circumstances under which Sir Frank shot his specimen 
were narrated in the ‘ Sketch’ of April 26, 1899, p. 22, the article being illus- 
trated with a photo of the mounted animal, Sir Frank was taking a photo- 
graph one afternoon when the Serow was noticed on the hill beneath him, 
apparently quite fascinated by the appearance of the cloth-covered camera 
on its tripod. It remained motionless, still gazing intently at the camera 
while a rifle was sent for, when an accurate shot brought it to bag. 
(From the Proceedings of the Zoological Soc, of London, 19th June, 1900). 
No. IV._NOTES ON ANOPHELES OB THE MALARIA MOSQUITO. 
In November last year, Colonel Weir suggested that the fever which 
prevailed in all the houses on the Nepean Mount Road might be attributable 
to mosquitoes produced in the stream of water which flows down from the 
reservoir to the sea on the west side of the hill. Accordingly, on the 18th of 
December, I went out and fished in the pools formed by the stream and found 
a number of larve. I did not at that time know the larva of Anopheles, 
but I reared those which I brought home, and when the mosquitoes came 
out there was no mistaking them. At Christmas I went up to Matheran, 
and hearing that there had been a good deal of malarious fever there during 
the past season, I went with Major Quicke to the lake to see if I could find 
any larve, We found no trace of themin the lake, and, indeed, if I had 
known as much as I do now, I should never have wasted time looking there, 
But in the little stream which feeds the lake we found larve and pup, one 
of which turned into an unmistakable Anopheles the same day. A fort- 
night later I went up again and found plenty. On the 24th of January I 
went with Dr. Christy to Chowpatty and examined the grassy puddles 
formed by the water which trickles down the east face of Malabar Hill 
below the reservoir. Here we found Anopheles larve in large numbers, and 
were not surprised to hear that the occupants of one of the bungalows 
which stand in that level piece of ground just under the hill were scarcely 
ever free from fever, I brought home a number and began regularly observ- 
ing them, but I do not remember that I collected any more till the 26th 
of March, when I found them swarming in the Frere Fountain in front of 
Church Gate Street. On the 22nd of April I visited Colonel Weir at 
Bandora and accompanied him to the slaughter-houses, in the neighbourhood 
of which he said that fever had been rife. To my astonishment I found 
Anopheles larve swarming in a dirty drain filled with rotting straw, which 
gave the water the colour of beer. In May Colonel Weir sent me two or 
three bottles of water from other places in Bandora, with Amopheles larve in 
them. The breaking of the monsoon, of course, upset the haunts of all mos- 
quitoes for a time, but on the 2nd of July I went out to Chinchpoogly and 
explored the quarries at the foot of the hill, where Dr, Christy told me he 
had found larve some time before, I found larvee in many of the pools and 
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