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of these well-known botanists by a few observations of my own, and it is to 
be hoped that they will be of some help in the identification of this plant, 
My thanks are due to Surgeon-Major K. R. Kirtikar for his having helped 
me in putting my original Gujrati notes into the English form. 
JAIKRISHNA INDRAJI, 
Porebandar, Kathiawar. 
No, XIV.—MEASUREMENT OF TIGER SKULLS. 
It would be very interesting if such of our members as have,in their posses- 
sion tigers’ skulls of considerable size would send the measurements of the 
same to the Secretary of this Society, as I notice that in Rowland Ward’s 
book on the Great Game of the World he places at the top of the list a 
tiger’s skull, in his own collection, which measures 144” x 10”. These are 
the exact measurements of the best specimen in our Society’s rooms. 
Mr. ©. R. Cleveland, I.C.8S., recently wrote to the Secretary of our Society 
stating that he had carefully measured a large tiger’s skull in the possession of 
Col. T. W. Hogg, Deputy Commissioner at Saugor, C. P., which was exactly 
148” x 108”, and that he himself had one which was 143” x 93”, 
Sterndale speaks of ‘an enormous skull (Mammalia of India, page 165,) 
which measured 153” x 103” and which he says was presented to the Calcutta 
Museum by Mr. J. Shillingford of Purneah, but according to the Catalogue 
of the Mammalia in the Indian: Museum, by Sclater, the largest specimen now in 
the Museum measures 15” x 10:3” and is stated to have been presented by 
‘Mr. Shillingford. ‘This is no doubt the same skull which Sterndale wrote of 
in 1884, but it appears to have shrunk somewhat with age. 
I need hardly say thai the measurements should be taken between uprights. 
W.S. MILLARD. 
BomBay, December, 1893. 
No. XV.—FOOD OF THE WILD BOAR. 
As very little has been written on the subject of the food of the Indian 
Wild Boar (Sus cristatus), it is, 1 think, worth recording that, when I visited 
Matheran Hill in August last during the south-west monsoon, I was told by the 
jungle people (Thakors) that a large number of wild pigs came up on to the 
hill every year during the rains in order to feed on the snails which are very 
plentiful there at that time of the year. I verified this statement by carefully 
examining all the pigs’ droppings IT came across and found that they con- 
sisted almost entirely of snail shells. ; 
J. M. MASON, 
Custodian, Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. Museum. 
BomBay, November, 1893. 
