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NOTES ON SAMBHUR AND SAMBHUR STALKING. 
of the river by the tigress and killed on the side on which we stood. 
Our shikarees, most of them Bheels, assured us it was a fact, and 
appeared to consider the feat of a tiger swimming across the Taptee 
with a sambhur as nothing very wonderful. Whether the cubs had 
swum across, or whether the tigress had killed on the other side of 
the river and dragged the sambhur across to her cubs to eat we could 
not say, but it seemed to us a wonderful thing, that this tigress in 
the cold weather should take such a long swim, dragging a stag 
sambhur with her. The sambhur might, however, have become inflat- 
ed with gas, which would render the task of dragging it across the 
river an easy one. To return to the sambhur we left belling. We 
proceeded as quickly as we could to this in the hope of getting 
a shot at the tigress. We marched up to within thirty yards of 
a sambhur hind standing at the top of a broad dry nullah, covered. 
with vegetation from top to bottom. The sambhur continued bell- 
ing without taking the slightest notice of us, and was answered by 
other sambhur on the other side of the nullah. We took little 
notice of the sambhur, as we hoped by waiting still we should catch 
a glimpse of the tigress in the nullah below and get a shot. After 
anxiously waiting a few minutes, and hearing and seeing nothing of 
the tigress, we went even nearer to the hind, which made off. On 
the other side of the nullah, about eighty yards off, was a fine stag 
sambhur with three or four hinds also belling. We watched this stag 
for some time determining to fire at him as soon as we were assured 
the tigress was not in the nullah. We attempted no concealment 
ourselves, but the sambhur seemed perfectly panic-struck and 
appeared to look for no danger from our side. Afier a short) time 
the stag walked slowly down the nullah, and then came up on our 
side and in our direction. I whispered to my companion the tigress 
had left the nullah or the sambhur would never have gone in the 
nullah, and suggested he should now kill the stag. He fired and 
hit too. Subsequent proceedings, however, will not interest you, 
although I have another little story about that tigress and her cubs, 
which I dare not tell you because I should digress from the subject 
of this paper. We afterwards went down into the bottom of the 
nullah and found the tigress and her cubs had gone along the nullah 
quite close to the sambhur. 
THE LARGEST SAMBHUR ON RECORD. 
Now for the largest stag sambhur on record. My experience 
