540 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATUBAL HTfiTORY SOCTETY. 1892. 



scent, I do not think lie would reply to their cry of alarm by a 



growl. 



The largest tiger killed by the author measured 9 ft. 3 in. 



The concluding chapter deals with Bison and Deer. We will only 

 alkide to one incident ; after shooting away all his ammunition at a 

 hill bison and failing to kill it, the animal still being able to get up 

 and go a few paces, he finished it off in a most extraordinary way. 

 We will give his own words. "^ * "I thought he was dead, but what 

 was my astonishment when he again got up on his legs and quietly 

 walked off, and when he laid down again, it was as naturally as if 

 he had not a single hole in his skin. This looked pleasant ; I did not 

 like to leave him, and had only one resource, so I tied my hunting- 

 knife to a long bamboo, and creeping up, plunged it into his side 

 just below the elbow ; this finished him.'' There is a sketch shewing 

 the coup-de-grace being administered. This in other books of Indian 

 sport we wot of, we should consider a case of the long bow. The 

 knife must have been longer than the ordinary run of shikar-knives, 

 and securing it to the bamboo must have been an excellent example 

 of lashing, but as we have before said, from the modest way in which 

 the book is written, the incident must be taken as above suspicion. 

 E. F. B. 



* Fur- BEARING Animals. 

 In this book there is a great amount of useful information, in fact 

 its title might be " Things not generally known." As regards the 

 animals in nature there are many slips and inaccuracies ; and useless, 

 and in some cases childish, padding ; but it is not our intention to 

 pick holes, but to give an idea of its merits. At the commencement 

 there are tables of the quantities of furs imported by various com- 

 panies. As an example of the enormous number furnished by some 

 animals, we will take the Australian Opossum, of which in 1891 

 2,254,111 skins were imported. At the great Fur Sales in London 

 the value of fur-skins sold annually is little short of £1,000,000. We 

 commence with the monkeys ; the Indian monkeys do not appear to 

 furnish many skins. The Lion Monkey {M. silenus) is mentioned, 

 but its skin is not often imported ; the fur of the Himalaya 



* Fur-bearing animals in Nature and in Commerce. By Henry Poland. Cliur- 

 ney and Jackson, 1, Paternoster Row. 



