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 saw a few four-horned antelope 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 a rule 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 

 deplorably 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 I do 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 round the 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, I 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 as a policeman's whistle ; I blew this as hard as I could ; not 

 one of the pig took the slightest notice. I have 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— at 



