MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 559 
back you could find buffalo within a mile of the dak bungalow I am told ; it 
is necessary to go a good many miles now before you would see one ; I walked 
one evening about four or five miles up the river, the Jonk Nadi, without 
Seeing anything whatever except fresh clearings. I neither saw nor heard a 
barking deer, I sawa few four-hornedantelope without horns—they are called 
universally ‘“ Kotri”—a few nielghai, and that is all. This scarcity of deer 
quite spoils the pleasure of a shooting expedition, as it is always pleasant to see 
some life in the morning or evening walk : I nearly always was out in the early 
morning and always in the evening, and as arule saw absolutely nothing ; in 
fact latterly my shikar diary nearly daily contains the following entry : 
“ Morning stroll, usual result ; evening walk, as usual.” My beats also were so 
depiorably lifeless ; I have beaten lovely hills and jungle ; perhaps I might see 
two or three peafowl, but generally not that, nor even a monkey ; not a single 
jungle or spur foul did I ever see. 
Of miscellaneous animals I was annoyed by wild dogs once or twice ; natives 
call them “ Kog” (g hard) ; on one occasion I had kubber of a panther kill,so 
rode out 6 or 7 miles to arrange about a machan being made, only to find out 
that about ten or eleven o'clock a pack of wild dogs had come down the nullah 
and eaten up every bit of the kill. Wild dogs seem to be later on the prowl 
than other animals ; whether they turn out at a corresponding later hour in the 
evening Ido not know, but I have come across them when every other 
predatory animal would be ensconced for the day. 
Porcupines I saw two in beats. 
The universal pig, of course, was common enough. One evening sitting up 
over a kill I was interested by their behaviour,they went all roundthe kill and 
remained in its neighbourhood all the evening ; they apparently devoured the 
droppings of the vultures, but never offered to touch the kill; one pig came 
under my machan and evidently winded something as he sniffed about for 
some considerable time, but appeared satisfied at last ; the panther did not come 
to the kill, nor would this be accounted for by it not daring to face the pig, or 
ought the panther to be master of the situation? I cannot imagine a cat-sized 
panther, which I have referred to above, being able to frighten off a number of 
full-grown pig ; at last, as it was too dark to see to shoot, 1 decided to give up, 
but as a pig was under my machan and several close to it, I decided to try the 
effects of the sound of a whistle to see if it would alarm them ; I had with me 
what is known asa policeman’s whistle ; I blew this as hard as I could; not 
one of the pig took the slightest notice, Ihave mentioned that the pig did 
not touch the kill ; at another place I had a kill from a tiger (which I shot) ; the 
next morning my shikari reported that pig had eaten up all the kill. Why 
should they have done so in this case and taken no notice of the kill in the 
other ? 
Jackals, of course, were present in body and in voice ; as we know, they are 
not usually of a particularly timid nature, and I was very much amused—ai 
