454 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1906. 
ground. The descriptions in certain books of coursing houbara 
with hounds, or riding them own, accra oP 
They are doubtless somehow or other true in the let 
wing bones, though large, appear to be brill Once 
in a stern chase, an old ‘intermewed’ chargh that always 
struck with force, came up with a wet sail and struck the houbara 
in the same plane. I relate the incident as it happened : it is 
cult to account for it. 
