INDEX 



Africa, South (game laws), 



157 



Allah Din, Mohammedan or- 

 derly, 4-12 ; 42-43 



America (game laws), 157 



Ammunition. See Battery. 



Animals and the scent of man, 



35 

 Army and Navy Stores, 190, 



193, 214 ; rifle range at 



Nunhead, 190 

 Arracan Hill Tracts, 18 ; as a 



game district, 19, 122, 138, 



141, 224 

 Assam, 122 



Badminton Library, Big Game 

 volume, cited, 71 



Bamboo jungle, 87 



Banting, the (Bos sondaicus) : 

 habitat, 19, 81, 90, 223-224 ; 

 characteristics, 70, 81-84, 

 85 ; compared with English 

 cattle, 82 ; colour and heads, 

 82-83, 95 > local variation 

 of colour of, 82 ; horns, 83- 

 84, 95 ; an old bull, 94-95 ; 

 habits, 38, 56, 57, 87, 97, 

 98, 99-100, 171-172, 173, 

 185 ; contrasted with Gaur, 

 68, 69, 81-83, 8 5. 86 . 

 88, 98, 100-101, 172 ; feeding, 

 71, 98 ; ' lying-up ' and 

 resting places, 108, 186 ; 

 breeding, 66-67, II2 '• wari- 



ness, 55, 60, 84-85, 97, 99, 

 117, 172, 186; wariness of 

 scared animal, 75, 86 ; diffi- 

 cult to hunt, 84-86, 89 ; in 

 bamboo jungle, 87-88 ; in 

 indaing forest, 88-89 '• eas- 

 ier stalking in the hills, 

 87 ; the ' quins,' 99, 135 ; 

 uncertainty of shooting, 104- 

 108 ; the best time for 

 hunting, 59-61 ; disadvan- 

 tages in the rainy season, 

 60 ; shooting from an ele- 

 phant, 84 ; a successful 

 shoot described, 90-94 ; coal- 

 black bulls, 82, 183 ; a disap- 

 pointing loss (black tsaing), 

 184 ; charging, 30, 93, 96, 98 ; 

 tracks, 91, 102-103, 175-176; 

 tracking, 85-93,99, 100-103 '> 

 signs of approach, 101 ; 

 how to distinguish the bull, 

 99 ; importance of good 

 trackers, 100 ; equipage, 

 209 ; camping out, 102 ; 

 solitary bulls and herds, 

 112-113, 119; curious ac- 

 tions of a herd, 119; a 

 cunning bull, 117 ; a sus- 

 picious cow, 114 ; stam- 

 peding, 115 ; measurements, 

 81, 83, 95, 103, 118 

 Barasingh (Kashmirian deer), 



149. 15° 

 Barking (rib-faced) deer. See 

 . Deer. 



