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Valley, IT. Chindwin R., U. Burma.) This type of “ freak ” tusk is apparently 
known to the Jungle Burman but as being very rare — they refer to it by a 
word meaning (sugar) “ cane ” which is corrugated in this fashion. 
The corrugations are certamly not due to any rubbing on the part of the 
elephant, but are in the growth from the very root. I thought perhaps it was 
due to some disease when the elephant was young but the Burmans say no. 
If you could account for it in any way I should very much like to know as 
may be you have seen similar tusks. 
Rangoon, 
7th July 1922. 
J. H. W, 
No. vn.— EFFECT OF STORM ON ANIMALS. 
During the writer’s visit to Mysore on the Prince of Wales’ tour, a shikari 
friend told me the following incident : — 
In 1912 or 13 the Colonel who narrated the incident said that he happened to 
be motoring through the jimgle ui the South of India. They had to make a stop 
on account of a thunderstorm. During the violent outburst nothing was to 
be seen of any of the denizens of the jimgle, who were probably cowering away 
in the thickest depths, in great fear. Immediately after the storm had subsided, 
about 4 p.m. in the evenmg when the sun had broken through the clouds and its 
rays were making all the beautiful trees, rendered doubly green by the sudden 
outburst of the rain, scintillate and glitter in the way one often sees them do at 
home after a June thunderstorm, they proceeded on their way. The whole 
road became one mass of animals. The sides were thick with every imaginable 
kind of jungle animal ranging from a panther to numerous members of the 
CervidM and smaller mammals, and numbers of peacock and jungle 
fowl. They were all sunning themselves in the space cleared in the jungle on 
either side of the road. The Colonel had often done this journey, but this was 
the only occasion on which ho had seen the place ‘ swarming ’ with wild life. 
I wonder if other members have had similar experiences ? 
BERNARD C. ELLISON, C.M.Z.S. 
Bombay Nattieai, History Society, 
June 1922. 
NO. VIII.— NOTES ON OORIAL. 
Life history . — Oorial are typical wild sheep, giving birth to one or, very 
occasionally, two lambs every year. 
I take the period of gestation to be 51 months, not six as is usually stated. 
I base this statement on the following observations. I have never seen any 
signs of the commencement of the rut in September. In the second half of 
September 1910 I was hunting oorial in the Shahpur district and right up to the 
end of the month the old rams were apart from the ewes. I then crossed the 
Indus and hunted markhor in the hills West of Kalabagh up to October 10th. 
There were oorial there also (I shot one ram) and no sign of the rut commencing. 
I returned to Massan and hunted oorial for a week in a jagir in the Talagang dis- 
trict and on October 17th I saw rams fighting and next day saw five rams chasing 
a ewe in season. In the third week of October 1920 1 was in the Nili rukh (Jhelum 
district), and the rut was in full swing. In November 1919 I was in the Kala Chitta 
Range (Campbellpore district) and saw four rams chasing a ewe on November 
19th. I have frequently been on oorial ground in early December, and the rut 
