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'Captured by pardis. These animals appeared to be less uncommon in Berar 

 than in many localities. I saw in 1890 the skins of three which had been 

 shot in the Melghat Forest in the Satpura Hills North of Ellichpur by Mr. 

 Ballantyne of the Forest Department. He told me that they all came out 

 in one beat. Captain Winter of the Hyderabad Contingent Artillery shot 

 one at Damangaon near Ellichpur in or about 1894, He saw two or three 

 and shot one when sitting over a kill or a tethered goat. Another was shot iu 

 1895 in the Wun District of North Berar by Captain Barnard, 4th Lancers, 

 Hyderabad Contingent, the animal came down to drink at a pool of water 

 ■close to him. 



In an article in the India Sporting Review for February 1857, there is a refer- 

 ence to Chesney's " Journal of the Euphrates Expedition," in which this species 

 lis said to be more numerous in Asia Minor than in Persia and Mesopotamia .• 

 its occurrence is also noted in Arabia and in the vicinity of Aleppo. The -^vriter 

 of the article says that the chief supply of these animals in Upper India is from 

 the Jeypur District. According to "Buchanan Hamilton," it is found in most 

 ■of the hilly parts of India, but is nowhere very numerous except near Hydera- 

 .bad, Deccan. It is stated by Mr. Ure, Surgeon at Hyderabad, that Hunting 

 Leopards were numerous near that place, and live in holes among the rocks 

 on the hiUs, or rocks that are near the plains which the antelope frequent. 



Sir Samuel Baker, in his Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon, published in 

 1855, says this animal is common there and " frequently caught at Newera 

 Ellia." 



The late Sir Montagu Gerard told me he had ridden down and speared this 

 rspecies in Central India. 



Charlton Kings, England, 



Juvp. 1920. R. G. BURTON, Brig.-Genl. 



No. VIL— THE HUNTING LEOPARD {CJNMLURUS JUBATUS) 

 IN KATHIAWAR. 



I notice in the last number of our Journal under an interesting note on the 

 "Hmating Leopard by G.O. Allen, I.C.S., that the Society is anxious to obtain 

 all the information it can regarding this now somewhat rare animal, so am 

 ■sending the following note on its occurrence in the Province of Kathiawar 

 in the hope that it may be of some value. 



According to Blaniord's "Mammalia", the Hunting Leopard, does not 

 occur in India, North of the Ganges or anywhere in the Eastern part of the 

 Peninsular, or on the Malabar Coast. How far South it occurs, he is unable 

 to state, but adds that its range is probably nearly the same as that of the 

 Indian antelope. 



As far as the Bombay Presidency is concerned I think I can safely .say that 

 the only district in which it occurs is in a limited area, situated about the centre 

 of the Province of Kathiawar^ and there only in very small numbers. 



The antelope is met with in suitable localities, in most of the districts, ranging 

 from Gujerat in the North down to the Southern falukas of the Dharwar districts 

 bordering on the Mysore State, but during the many years I was engaged on 

 ;Survey work, in the Bijapur, Belgaum and Dharwar districts, 1 have never once 

 heard of a wild Hunting Leopard having been seen in those parts, although I 

 made exhaustive enquiries amongst the natives, some of whom were acquaint- 

 ed with the animal from having seen tame ones, kept by Indian Princes for 

 hmiting purposes. 



I am not so well acquainted with the more Northern districts of the Presi- 

 dency but I think if a Hunting Leopard had either been seen or shot in any 

 •of them dmring my long service in Kathiawar I should most certainly have heard 

 ■of it. As J have already stated they are exceedin^fly scarce in the latter Pro- 

 vince. In the Kathiawar Volume of the Bombay Gazetteer, it is stated, on the 



