S5i JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXIII. 



I saw quantities of buck in this district 

 but none were worth shooting as I never saw 

 one with a head which I judged to be more 

 than 17 inches. 



A. A. FENN, Lt., 



3, Royal Fusiliers. 



LxTCKNOW, 27th January 1914. 



[There are several records of female black buck 

 with horns. In the Society's Museum there is a 

 head of af emale with horns, shot near Umballa 

 on 9th December 1883 by Colonel J. H. Yule, 

 This head is peculiar in havino- no definite rings 

 on the horns but a polished smooth surface. 



In Vol. II of our Journal, p, 9, the late Mr. R. 

 A. Sterndale figured another head in the possession 

 of H. H- the Maharaja of Jodhpore. In the Field 

 for 1.5th March 1876 there is an illustration of 

 another female head with horns which was shot at 

 Etah, U. P., nnd sent to Mr. D. Craigie-Halkett. 

 Besides these three heads, a fourth which is figured 

 in The Book of Antelopes , Vol iii, p. 14, is in the 

 Hume Bequest in the British Museum. According 

 to Mr. Lydekker in the Catalogue of Ungulates 

 the head come from Gurgaon and the horns " bend 

 oiitwards ana downwards in a homogeneous curve, 

 the first turn being continued to form a regular 

 curvet" 



The Umballa and the Etah heads are very similar 

 in shape but in the latter specimen the horns are 

 ringed just as in an ordinary male animal. 



Malformed heads of males similar to the above 

 photograph are not uncommon and if it had not 

 been vouched for by Mr. Fenn as a female we 

 should have taken it for a male which had received 

 some injury possibly to the generative organs, 

 resulting in the horns being deformed. — Eds.] 



No. XII.— TSAING {BIBOS SONBAICUS) FOUND WITH 

 VILLAGE CATTLE. 



With reference to the article from Mr. Hauxwell appearing in Volume 

 XXI, No. 3, at page 1072 on the above subject the following additional facts 

 may be of interest. While touring in the Mansi Division on 3rd May 1914 

 I happened to be within 8 miles of Kyaungle and heard that the wildTsaing 

 was again out with the village cattle. Having moved camp next day I 

 sent out men on arrival to see where he was to be found about 2 p.m. I 

 was told that he was about a mile away in some paddy fields. I rode out 

 with two ladies of my party and saw him in a bare dry field with a herd of 

 about 30 or 40 village cattle. At first we remained on our ponies about 50 

 yards from him and watched him. After a time I rode up closer and watch- 

 ed for a bit and then dismounted and stood watching him for a little while. 

 He started feeding towards me and took no notice of me allowing me to get 

 within 5 yards of him. He seemed to be a young bull carrying horns 

 ahout 24" with corrugations for about 6", was in very poor condition pro- 

 bably due to his long spell with the village cattle, where the feeding is not 

 very good, and his living too much exposed to the sun. While I watched 

 him I noticed that he seemed to be paying particular attention to one cow 

 and while the cattle were grazing he frequently lay down until the herd 



