Jungle By-Ways in India 



Its pugs as shown here are very Hke a dog's. 



I have often come across this animal in beats. 

 Quite recently two of us were sitting on a forest 

 line hoping for a stag chitul, or sambhar, when 

 my friend suddenly fired two shots. I looked 

 up to my right, and there, jumping down the line 

 towards me, was what I took to be a panther. 



Pugs of hysena. 



I fired a barrel at him rather hurriedly, and then 

 a second when he was within 30 yards. The 

 second shot dropped him, and reloading, I slowly 

 advanced. The ride was in deep shadow, as it 

 was still early morning ; but surely, I thought, 

 that (San't be a leopard. Suddenly the animal 

 half raised himself up, and I saw the gleam of 

 a pair of wicked-looking fangs, a tremendous crest, 

 and two ugly-looking green eyes. It was a hyaena. 

 The wild dog is by no means so widely dis- 



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