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it is seldom the houriar rests for the remainder of that day, 

 but keeps constantly on the move, selecting the ridges and 

 most prominent points. The old are said to be untameable, 

 but when caught young it is easily domesticated, and will 

 herd with tame goats and sheep. The rams, however, are 

 very pugnacious, and are often unmanageable. They fight in 

 the same manner as the domestic sheep. When driving a 

 jungle in search of wild pigs I observed a fine specimen of the 

 great wild cat. It is common in the Punjaub, and hunts 

 among the ravines and around the villages at night. In a 

 hollow we were suddenly startled by observing large blood- 

 stains, and in one spot decided traces of a struggle, with the 

 foot-prints of a tiger. The villagers informed us that their 

 cattle, goats, and sheep were frequently carried away by an 

 old tiger which had confined his depredations to the domestic 

 animals of two villages for several months. This would ap- 

 pear frequently the case with old males of many quadrupeds. 

 The leopard seldom attacks cattle, and confines its plunder- 

 ings to sheep, goats, and village dogs. The black part- 

 ridge is not general in these parts, the country not being 

 sufficiently cultivated ; moreover, I do not think the 

 chukore and this species ever frequent the same locality, 

 although the former and the gray partridge are often found 

 on the same hiUside. Flocks of the wood-pigeon [Golumba 

 ^alwmbvjs) were common in the fields. All the Indian speci- 

 mens I have examined had the neck-patch clay-coloured and 

 rather smaller than that of the European bird. I believe the 

 same has also been noted with reference to Chinese specimens. 

 It would be interesting to follow this permanent race towards 

 the west, and see where the one ends and the other commences. 

 On the 2d of April, after several hot and sultry days with 

 a close and murky state of the atmosphere, a hail-storm took 



