MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
795 
A summarised account of the cold weather season 1921-22 shooting in India and 
Burma, if only the response to this appeal will make it comprehensive enough, 
will be of benefit to members and perhaps be the means of increasing the 
membership of the Society. We ought to have far more members than we 
have but we fear some consider the journal “ too scientific”. There should 
be no reproach in our journal being scientific. It is the scientific papers which 
have made and do make it so valuable but in view of papers such as the above, 
the article on ‘ Butterfly collecting in India ’ by Col. Evans, Major Stockley’s 
papers, and so many others, is there not sufficient matter of interest for the 
most unscientific “ shikari ?” 
No. III.— THE INDIAN LION. 
A few months ago a lion was shot in the main street of the small and semi- 
deserted village of Shergarh in Kotah State. I have been able to obtain pos- 
session of the skin — or the remains of the skin — which I am sending to the Society 
as a donation from the Maharaj Kumar Saheb of Kotah. A Honess is reported 
to have been seen in the same vicinity. Rumours of a lion having been seen 
at Sawai Mahdopur, just north of this State, were current about a year ago. 
With regard to this skin, I have endeavoured to discover — in vain — where this 
lion came from. It is said that the hons liberated in Gwahor some years ago 
were all accounted for, though it would be as well to get this confirmed or 
contradicted. 
The only other Hons I have heard of were a pair Uberated in Bundi some 10-15 
years ago. According to some accounts both these beasts (which are said to have 
come originaUy from Kotah) were shortly afterwards found dead ; according to 
others they were not seen again. It is just possible that they bred. Perhaps 
some member of the Society will be able to supply some information which 
win help to clear up this somewhat mysterious occurrence of a lion in Rajputana. 
That Hons were abundant here in the old days would seem apparent, for they 
are frequently depicted in the stirring shikar scenes which decorate the old Pala- 
ces, taking precedence as Royal game, over even the tiger. 
In conclusion I may say that the skin is a small one — apparently a male Hon 
2 or 3 years old. We are trying to obtain the skull but it has probably been 
broken up and disposed of. 
T. R. LIVESEY. 
Kotah. March 2\st, 1922. 
No. IV— THE OCCURRENCE OF THE STRIPE-BACKED WEASEL 
{MU STELA STBIGIDORSA) IN THE NAGA HILLS. 
I write to report the occurrence in this district of Mustela strigidorsa, which 
as far as the authorities to which I have access go, has hitherto only been reported 
from the Himalayas. I was driving in a motor car in this district at a height 
of about 5,000 feet when the car had to be stopped to avoid running over two small 
animals fighting in the middle of the road. In spite of the fact that they were 
almost touched by the front wheel of a very ramshackle and noisy Ford, they 
continued fighting within a foot of the car, and the battle progressed for some 
minutes alongside the foot-board and eventually worked across the road into 
the gutter on the far side, when I got out to watch it at close quarters again. 
The bigger of the two was an enormous rat, probably a bandicoot or something 
