228 JO URNAL, BOMB A Y NA TURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. IX. 



No. IX.— EGGS OP THE BUSTARD. 



It is, I think, worthy of record that I recently obtained two bustard's eggs 

 from the same nest. Both eggs were of a peculiar colour, exactly alike, and 

 equally hard set. 



H. BULKLEY. 



Khabauhora, 21th October, 1894. 



No. X.— A BLACK BUCK WITH ONE HOEN. 



On the 17th instant I shot a black buck with one horn. 



The antelope was in good condition and bore no marks of fighting ; it was 

 not so black as some I have shot, but still a very respectable black ; and I 

 should say it was rather a small animal. 



The head bore one horn 17£" long, thinnish but perfect ; the place where the 

 other horn should have been showed a small wart-like excresence about £" 

 diameter, merely a skin-deep thing, for it moved about on being touched and 

 came off as part of the skin ; the skull merely showed a lump about |" at most 

 in the centre. There is actually no appearance whatever of a horn ever having 

 existed, though, if it did, it must have been broken off very early. 



My shikari, Abdul Karim, formerly with Mr. Hughes, of the Geological 

 Survey, and Mr. Hobson, Mr. Fraser, &c, whom doubtless you know by 

 reputation, says he has never seen one like it. 



I am sending the specimen to you for your museum where such abnormali- 

 ties are of interest. 



J. SEWELL, 

 District Supt. of Police. 



Buldana, Bekae, 27th October, 1894. 



No. XL— DEPOSITS MADE BY WHITE ANTS. 



Two years ago I wrote to the Asian on the subject of a vegetable substance 

 which the white ants appear to deposit on the surface of the ground here. I 

 asked for information, but no one responded, nor does any one here seem to 

 know what it is. Natives told me that it was a deposit made by white ants, 

 and, on turning over a piece or two of the deposit, I found white ants under- 

 neath. The natives then astonished me by saying that if I let the deposit 

 alone, it would next morning be turned into fungi, and, sure enough, all the 

 little egg-like particles became small fungi an inch high with heads up to the 

 size of a four-anna bit. I ate some and they had all the flavour of mushrooms, 

 but are of a waxy white colour all through. I have sent you in a small box a 

 specimen of the deposit. I have put a wet sponge in with it so that it may 

 keep moist on the journey and perhaps some of the eggs will have turned into 



