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and dragged it ignominiously away, with the hind lega trailing limply behind, 

 to a hole in the wall or fernery, where, I 'presume, the musk-rat ate the frog, 

 I send this in case it may be of interest, and may elicit some further informa- 

 tion regarding the food of the musk-rat and its methods of obtaining it. 



G, K. WASEY. 



Marmagao, Ibth January, 1896. 



No. VI.— FIELD NOraS FEOM C¥TOH. 



On the 26th December last, while out on ten days' leave in the northern 

 part of Cutch, along the south shore of the great Rann, I was all day after 

 Ghinkara, and succeeded in bagging a good head of .exactly 12 inches. On 

 returning to camp at the village of D., and just as the sun was going down, 

 my shikari spied a wolf trotting through some reeds in a half -dried salt marsh , 

 evidently on its way to get a drink, and about 100 yards ahead of our cart. 

 I got out quickly and loaded my rifle. Suddenly the wolf wheeled right 

 round and went off at a tremendous pace. At first I thought she (it turned out 

 to be a gaunt female) was bolting at sight of us, but my shikari said, " No 

 Sahib, she is after a hare." I stopped the cart and stood upon it, thus getting 

 a good view of as fine a chase as I have ever seen. A grey-hound, a good dog- 

 to boot, would have been utterly out of it both with regard to speed and 

 turning powers. The wolf headed the hare almost immediately and kept on 

 heading and turning it until it must have got quite sick from giddiness. Then 

 they disappeared behind a jhas bush at the edge of a field on the left side of 

 the cart track about 200 yards ahead of us, I waited a minute or two, ex- 

 pecting to see them re-appear the other side of the hedge, but, as they did not 

 come into view, I proceeded quietly to the place where I had seen them disap- 

 pear. On arriving within a few yards, the shikari said, " There it is, eating the 

 hare ; come this way. Sahib." I went round to the field side of the bush and 

 then caught a glimpse of the beast feeding ravenously. On seeing me, it ran 

 through the bush and came out again on the cart-track. I was round in the 

 twinkling of an eye and on my knee when out came the wolf, trotting majesti- 

 cally and showing its teeth, about 30 paces off. Taking a fine sight below the 

 shotilder, I fired, and hit her through the lower portion of the ear, the 

 bullet traversing the skull and coming out of the right eye. The skull was 

 smashed to pieces, and after a few kicks she lay still. We went to the place 

 where she had caught the hare and found not a morsel left. When she was 

 cut open and skinned next day, the mangled remains of the hare, which had 

 evidently ordy been chawed up a bit and then bolted, were found. The whole 

 chase only lasted three or four minutes, and the brute was swallowing its well- 

 earned meat within fifty yards of a Kunbi working in his field, who, with the 

 usual apathy of his race, took no interest whatever in the proceedings. Wolves 

 are very plentiful and destructive this year in Cutch, and it is difficult to mark 



