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are disturbed by man, but they always bell when they sce a tiger. 
On two occasions when beating for tiger, I have known a 
sambhur driven out past. the guns without sounding any note 
of alarm, but when some distance behind commence to bell. 
On both these occasions the tiger was behind the guns and near 
where the sambhur commenced to bell, so that I infer he must have 
_seen the tiger and then commenced to bell. It would, therefore, 
appear that the sambhur bells when he sees the tiger either to warn 
any of his mates who may be in the neighbourhood, or to express 
his hatred like the monkeys, who often follow the tiger from tree to 
tree and rock to rock swearing all the while, and that the belling 
is not necessarily caused by fear. A native shikaree first drew 
my attention to this theory, and I have talked with one or two 
sportsmen, whose experience was much the same as mine. 
ANTIPATHY TO TIGER. 
The well-behaved monkey never swears, except at a tiger or pan- 
ther, but the sambhur, who is of a lower order, occasionally swears 
his swear at something else besides the tiger. There is no doubt 
the tiger is the sambhur’s deadliest foe, and that he frequently 
affords food for the tiger. I have several times come across the 
remains of sambhur killed by tigers. After I had written the above, 
T happened to come across a passage in the “ Nilghiri Sporting 
Reminiscence,” in which the author, who appears to have had con- 
siderable experience of sambhur stalking, states that the sambhur 
never bells upon seeing a man but only at the sight ofa tiger; but 
T know him to be wrong there, because I have on a few occasions had 
a sambhur bell at me when I have disturbed him. I have used the 
expression “bell” throughout because that is the word generally 
used, but I think “ bark” would be a more expressive word. 
SAMBHUR IN AUSTRALIA. 
Sambhur and Cheetul have been brought to Australia from India, 
and turned down. Iam told that cheetul thrive wild, and have 
mereased at a great pace in Gippsland, Victoria, but I saw none of 
them and can give no personal information about them. last year, 
however, I made the acquaintance of the sambliur in Victoria, at a 
station called Ercil-down, belonging to Sir Samuel Wilson. I saw 
about seventy in a large deer park. In the middle of this park 
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thore was a hill and the ground was well suited for sambhur. They, 
