OTHER GAME ANIMALS OF KASHMIR 
I N addition to the foregoing, the hunter may meet with the beautiful 
snow leopard, which, though by no means rare, is very seldom seen. 
How often one comes across their tracks when after ibex and markhor, 
and how very seldom one ever gets a sight of one. The best chance is to 
leave out an ibex carcass and visit it at dawn. 
The ordinary leopard is fairly plentiful in the Vale of Kashmir, and 
may sometimes be got by tying up a goat and sitting over it towards sun- 
down; but the best time to shoot them is in the winter when they can be 
tracked in the snow. It must not be forgotten that they are dangerous 
animals to follow up when wounded, and Colonel Turnbull, a man of vast 
experience in this kind of hunting, lost his life a couple of years ago in this 
manner. 
The pretty little musk deer may be seen occasionally. They have no 
horns, but the bucks possess canine teeth two or three inches long. It 
seems a pity to shoot them, as they have been much persecuted for their 
musk pod. 
Lynx and wolf are to be found in Ladak and Changchenmo, also the 
kyang or wild ass, but this last can hardly be regarded as game. 
The duck shooting in winter is about the best in the world. Hokra, 
the Government jheel, is shot regularly throughout the season, the 
“guns,” seven or eight in number, being placed in tubs. Anyone who has 
once heard the roar of the first big flush of duck at this shoot will never 
forget it. 
Enormous bags of wild fowl have been made by Mr M. T. Kennard and 
other sportsmen, shooting by themselves. 
P. B. VAN DER BYL. 
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