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The head is doubtless a ca^e of injury to one or both testes, in this case 

 perhaps the left being the chief sufferer. Such cases in the stag family 

 usually lead to the undue development of horns. 



L. S. OSMASTON, 



Lidian Forest Service. 

 Camp, Ahmednagak Disteict, 

 2Uh April, 1896. 



No. VI.— CURIOUS ACCIDENT TO A LEOPARD CAT, 



This morning, some of my Nepalese coolies, when going to work, found in a 

 tea-field a full-grown male Leopard Cat {Felis iengalensis) and a full-grown 

 jack Hare lying dead not far from each other. The Leopard Cat had evidently 

 surprised the Hare by springing on it, but in doing so had come in contact 

 with the sharp pruned tip of a tea bush branch, which entered under the 

 right armpit and penetrated at a slant into the left cavity of the chest, 

 causing its death. This must have occurred in the small hours of this 

 morning, as, when I saw the cat — about 8 a,m, — blood was still flowing from 

 the wound. Such an accident is new to me and I should think was very 

 lanusual, 



NORMAN F. T. TROUP. 

 Kausanie P, 0., Almoka, N,-W, P., 

 12th April, 1896, 



No. YII,— SAMBAR SHEDDING ITS HOENS ACCIDENTALLY, 

 Last month, during a beat, I fired at a Sambar stag going across my front 

 at about 40 yards distance ; it at once rushed straight towards the bush behind 

 which I was sitting, fell in a heap at my feet — within 3 yards — then jumped 

 up and bolted, leaving both its horns (about 34 inches\on the ground, it was 

 just as if it had said " I suppose you want my horns, take them and leave 

 me alone," The stag was only slightly wounded and got away all right, I am 

 glad to say. The horns were quite ready for shedding. 



E. LINDESAY, Major, 



The Royal Irish Regt. 

 Saugor, C. P„ \Uh April, 1896, 



No. Yin.-LIQUID DISCHARGE FROM CICADA INSECTS. 



When walking recently in the forests, on the outskirts of a small village 

 in the Pakhal Taluk of H. H. The Nizam's Dominions, my attention was 

 attracted by what appeared to a shower of rain or drizzle amongst some 

 Ebony and Palmyra trees beyond me. On approaching the trees, the shower 

 increased quite sufficiently to wet my coat, and the well-known deafening 

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