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BIRD AND BEAST CALLING. 
THE barking deer is most plentiful in the hills 
all over the country. Its coughing bark can be 
heard nightly close by every jungle hamlet in 
both Upper and Lower Burma. <A specimen of 
this deer, which an Italian naturalist obtained 
a few years ago from the hills near Moulmein, 
turns out to be a new species found nowhere 
else as yet. The call for the barking deer is 
‘made by using a blade of grass or a leaf placed 
between the two thumbs held side by side. The 
leaf lies in the gape of the two thumbs between 
‘the two joints like the reed of a wind instru- 
ment, only that it faces the blast end on instead 
of along the flat. The sound can almost be pro- 
‘duced with a piece of writing paper held in the 
same manner. The native term for the call is 
“upetsoke,” literally leaf sucking. But this does 
not convey a right impression as the leaf is not 
‘sucked but blown upon. This is done just as 
a cornet player blows into the mouthpiece of 
his instrument, and the current of air sets up 
a vibration that produces a sound like the squeal 
of a young fawn. It is also like one cry of 
the dam, and at certain seasons of the year the 
call decoys the buck within shot. 
It is easy to acquire the knack of making the 
leaf sound, but it requires some practice before 
you can so modulate the note as to deceive 
the animals you are calling. The same note 
often calls up a tiger or leopard. 
On one occasion on the Arakan hills the 
writer was out with a party of Khyengs when 
an Arakanese village watchman began calling, as 
we walked along a path running along the crest 
of the ridge. A young deer not many weeks old 
came running in between our legs to the dis- 
organization of the entire party, not one of 
whom lifted a finger to do anything, though we 
‘might easily have caught the little thing alive. 
This watchman was an old dacoit, who now in 
the sere and yellow leaf, was eating the salt of 
the foreigners whom as a youth he had harried 
ithrough the gaps and passes of the hills from 
‘Burma proper. His knowledge of the tracks 
about these hills and the places for camping and 
water in the depths of the jungle, miles from 
any human habitation, was wonderful. 
On another occasion the writer himself, while 
sitting on a log on a hill top, was amusing him- 
self making the call. Presently from a distance 
of over half a mile there came bounding along 
ithe crest of the opposite range a buck kakur. 
The cart road from village to village wound along 
between the two crests. The deer stood a while 
afraid to cross this path. An attempt to stalk 
it by a ravine that led to the other crest failed, 
however, from some cause or other. But the 
vim with which the old buck came on his recon- 
noitre was simply astonishing. 
An old hunter in the deltaie districts, who 
\said he was unable to do the call correctly, and 
also that he preferred to have both his hands 
available when calling as he hunted alone, used 
a simple call made of palm leaf, flat and about 
the size of the first joint of the fore finger. Thev 
jsounded it by way of elucidation and the call 
|was perfect. The call is a most convenient one 
for signalling in the jungles. Burmese carriers 
and gun bearers when not leading are always 
apt to straggle and have to be called up. When 
\they happen to be leading they go so fast that 
it takes all one’s muscles and wind to keep up 
with them. The way they step out when guid- 
jing you riding makes it difficult to keep up with 
them, unless the rider takes an occasional trot 
to close up the lost distance. They are very 
fast up hill, but down hill a man with heels to 
his boots has the advantage. and this equalfizes 
matters on a long day’s march, especially as your 
jman is handicapped with the lunch or the guns 
jor the waterproofs or blankets. 
Another favorite call of the Burmese is for 
silver pheasant. This is made with the corner 
lof a silk handkerchief, as, except in the case of 
jtown officials who use a fillet of muslin for a 
head dress, the usual young leaug or head cover- 
ing of the Burmese is a silk handkerchief, the 
jmeans of making the call are always to hand. 
Take one corner of the handkerchief and hold 
it between the thumb and forefinger, then take 
a like hold along the same edge with your other 
hand at the distance of two or three inches apart. 



SEcON D= MONEY 
AMATEUR who broke 97 out of 100 from the 21-yards 
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Second Average for the Entire Tournament 
was won by W. H. HE 
Third Average for the Entire Tournament 
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out of 600, his handicap being 21 yards. 
The Long Run of the Tournament—154 Straight 
was made by F. H. HOWLAND, an AMATEUR from 
St. Joseph, Mo. 

ALL the above records were made with 
DUPONT SMOKELESS 
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The Western Handicap 
was won by T. E. GRAHAM, of Long Lake, Ills., 
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Average for the Entire Tournament 
was won by an AMATEUR from Wisconsin—J. M. 
HUGHES of Milwaukee, who broke 580 out of 600, his 
handicap being 20 yards. 
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was won ILLINOIS 
by an 
ER, who broke 579 out of 600. 
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