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alone, though I once shot one out of a herd of four in the middle of May. 
I do not believe that all stags shed their horns yearly. Most, no 
doubt, have shed their horns by April or May ; but I have seen them 
with their horns in May and June. I once saw two stags together, 
one with soft horns, half grown, the other had his horns unshed. I 
shot a stag sambar on one occasion that was in company of half a 
dozen hinds of the swamp deer, and I have more than once seen one 
or two stags in close proximity to bison. 
Wild dogs are great enemies of sambar. I have twice seen them 
in chase. The first time they pulled down a calf about 150 yards 
from where I was. I heard a squealing and the loud barks of the 
mother, who stood close to the scene of the tragedy. Thinking a tiger 
had killed, I stalked up to the noise, and when close to, saw a yellow 
mass that I took to be a tiger, and was just going to fire when to my 
astonishment it split up into a dozen pieces and disappeared. I found 
the calf with its entrails torn out and eaten, part of the rump was 
eaten, and the eyes picked out—all in afew seconds. I hid myself 
behind a tree and in about 20 minutes the pack of dogs returned ; they 
passed me within 15 yards, in single file, a dozen in number, ten 
paces between each dog. I, with difficulty, refrained from firing. 
I was between them and the sambar, and they made a circuit and 
came up to the carcass from the opposite direction. As the leading dog 
reached the body, I could not wait any more. I fired and missed it, but 
luckily got one with the second barrel as they bolted. It was a female, 
and had the exact smell of a domestic dog. The second time I was 
sitting on the banks of the Taptee having breakfast, when a hind 
and calf rushed down the opposite bank into the stream, which 
here was shallow and running pretty strong. On reaching the 
middle she stood in the water with her calf under her body, and I saw 
two wild dogs in pursuit stop at the water’s edge. They uttered loud 
wailing howls, but the old hind and young one seemed quite comfort- 
able, the little one with its tail up frisking about under and around 
its mother. In a short time the dogs went away, and in about ten 
minutes afterwards the hind and calf went back to the same side they 
had come from and walked slowly off. You would have thought they 
would not have gone back to the same side as the dogs were. On 
the same day a couple of hours afterwards, two dogs, which I believe 
