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pillars, 01 



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 id ii, h ei th bait and in 



.1 passes ihn i I h 



ives .i sudden jerk, th i il s, and 



. a hile the n< • 



h is brougl i The 



. and answei j wi II in practi I 



en natives make a ffish in this manner. 



Willi dogs which hum in packs are said to be 



m ii I!p find th tracl of a deer, and hunt 



eath. " Barking deer " are common al 



,.oooft. The natives systematically hunt them 



re kep i 



and also foi the milk thi ■. mppl) . S »k bed 

 rhibetans 



during the su ter to a height ol 



l animal, but I have 



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[lowing ah I he ordinary 



Sikkim cattle are much i A hull tin., 



to attack me lhal I had my ^un 



al my shouldei read) to fin Ho 

 Thibetan in whose charge he was, hit him with agrcal 

 rock berAveen the eyes, and he was driven off while 

 his attention was thus distracted. Eastern Sikkim is 

 much prized as ii pasture land by Lcptchas and 

 i ins, and this was one of the causes ol dispute 



which gave rise to the late Sikkim-Thibel war. 



Dichu Valley, Gipmochbr, Sikkim. 



with dogs trained for the purpose. Like the hare 

 h hi ii pursued, the barking deer or " khakur " is said 

 to run in a circle. The native knows the course his 

 iiuarr) will take, and lies in wait armed with ■< 1 ow 

 and poisoned arrows. As the deer, driven 

 dogs, passes the hunter he receives one <if the arrows 

 and soon rolls over, dead. [ believe a poisi 

 from th witumfcrox is commonly em] 



[fthehuntei misses his aim the deer will pi ibably 

 have been pulled down by the dogs and killed ere he 

 completes hi> circuit ; and the dogs having enjoyed a 

 feast, return home at their leisure. Bells are USUall} 

 ded from the dogs' necks to warn the huntsmen 

 whereabouts. The meat of the barking 

 is fairly good lor eating. 



Small Mack hears are common in the warmer parts 

 of Sikkim. They are said to be very aggressive, < >nc 

 frequently sees natives be g scars, the result "I 



ha\ ing hern mauled. 



Sikkim is a veritable paradise for the naturalist, be 

 he botanist, zoologist, or geologist, bul .specially foi 

 the botani-i. 



2o. NighlingaU Place, Woolwick. 

 June zSth, 1899. 



New Localities for European Landshells. 



I >r. Westerlund records in the " Annuaire du Music 

 Zoologiiptc tie 1'Academic Imperiale des Sciences de 

 St. Petersbourg," 1898, p. 1S0, two important new 

 localities. //.7m (Acanthinula)harpa Say, hitherto 

 known only from the Unreal Regions of Europe, Asia 

 and America, and the Riffel Alps near Zermatl in 

 Switzerland, has been found near Astra bad, Trans- 

 kaspia. Helix (Trichio) revelata, whose Eastern 

 Limit was considered to be 5" E. Long, finds its 

 range extended by I5 C at one hound, specimens in 

 the St. Petersburg .Museum, collected at Kiev so far 

 hack as 1S40. having been referred to that species by 

 Dr. Westerlund. — G. A". Gude, 114. Aveum Road, 

 London. 



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