Note on a tour in Mysore 
IN 1891. 
(By EDGAR THURSTON.) 
I LEFT Madras at the end of February, 1891, for a month's 
tour in Mysore, with a view to acquiring specimens illus- 
trative of the arts, industries, natural history, &c., of that 
Province. The time selected was, as regards temperature, 
not judicious. 
The day following my departure from Madras was plea- 
santly spent in going over Dr. E. Hultzsch's excellent collec- 
tion of South Indian coins, and in exploring the Bangalore 
Museum and Lai Bagh. A_t the latter the most interesting 
objects to myself were an Albino Crow ^ and some kittens 
of the Jungle Cat [FpMs Chans). Some time ago one of 
the tigers in the collection had the operation for in-growing 
claws successfully performed. In order that the operation 
might be performed without risk (to the operators), the 
tiger was starved, and tken enticed into a long box, in which 
there was no room for it to turn round, baited at the far 
end with meat. 
A short journey by train brought me to Channapatna, 
between which place and Bangalore is the town of Closepet, 
where I left some of my staff to collect butterflies, lizards, 
snakes, &c., in the surrounding jungle country. At Chan- 
napatna there is a ruined fort, and a big bazar in which 
several industries and manufactures are carried out. A 
manufacture for which Channapatna is celebrated is that 
of steel-wire for musical instruments (Vinas, &c.) ; and 
^ The Madrafi Museum possesses an Albino Bandicoot. An Albino Nil 
giri black Robin was shot on the Nilgiris a few years ago. 
