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G. I. P. Kail way, once took out one of his subordinates on the railway 

 to shoot, and the man, to his great delight, shot a Cheetul stag. He 

 announced to Mr. Le Mesurier his intention of having the skin care- 

 fully dressed, and sending it as a present to his brother who kept a public 

 house at Northallerton. As a preliminary the skin was carefully removed 

 and stretched outside the tent, the jackals attracted by it during the 

 night came up and would no doubt have eaten it, but the owner was 

 constantly up and rushing out to see if it was safe. He so disturbed 

 Mr. Le Mesurier that the latter asked him not to make such a fuss 

 about a spotted buck skin, to which the indignant proprietor replied, 

 " It may be a spotted buck in India, but it is a leopard at Northaller- 

 ton." The above story, which I heard from Mr. Le Mesurier, is told in 

 rather a mutilated form in the Indian Game Volume of the Badminton 

 Library. I believe I told it to the writer myself many years ago. 



The first of the plates that accompany this paper is a very good 

 photograph by Mr. H. A. Heath. It will be observed that the stag, 

 a fine one, whose horns measured 34 inches, has an extra tine (the 

 measurement of which I have not got) growing out of the right antler 

 above the junction of the brow antler with the horn. This stag had 

 an extra tine curving downward, growing at the back of the upper fork, 

 but this is not shown in the plate, as it is concealed by the horn. An 

 extra tine at this spot is not very unusual. As I have already mentioned 

 almost every large Cheetul head has small knobs in the axil of the horn ; 

 the left horn in the plate it will be seen, has them. Occasionally they 

 continue to grow into a tine. A similar instance will be found depicted in 

 a plate at p. 223 of Vol. I of this Society's Journal. The horn there — the 

 left one — measured 30 1 inches, and the abnormal extra tine 20 inches. 

 Mr. N. C. Macleod has a single right horn, a shed one he found on the 

 Taptee, which has an exactly similar extra tine. This horn measures 

 35 inches, and the extra tine 19 inches. This horn is scored in different 

 places with the marks made by porcupines gnawing it. Shed horns are 

 often marked in this way. 



The second plate represents two Cheetul heads locked together. 

 They were found by Mr. H. A. Heath in the Berars and presented 

 by him to this Society. They had got interlocked when the stags 

 were fighting. The deer being unable to disengage themselves, had 

 died of exhaustion, thirst or starvation, or all three combined. The 

 following description of their position I hope is intelligible. For the 

 sake of convenience I call the head of the one that has its horns 



