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The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society April 1949

1949

Four marches brought me to the village in spite of delays occasioned by floods and a broken axle of one of the carts and the rest of the day was spent in settling in at the very comfortable forest bungalow and discussing shikar prospects with the local moksos (shikaris). [...] I had at the time no practical experience of elephant shooting but had studied the diagrams in Sanderson's book and had come to the conclusion that the head shot was the shot to take. [...] Soon after dawn on the following day I went down to the Sholaga village and picked up the trackers and we started up the path which runs over the ridge to the Gundal Rest House. [...] In accordance with the rules they had to be surrendered but were eventually rturned to me by order of the Board of Revenue after I had signed a declaration that I had shot the rogue 'at close range and at great personal risk' ! On the following morning when we returned to extract the tusks and remove the feet we found the third tusker still in the vicinity but 'Little Boy' soon chased him [...] NOTE :— The stories of the Cradle Tusker and the Benne rogue have already appeared in somewhat similar form in the Times of India Xmas supplement for 1937 and the Indian State Railway Maganine respectively and are reproduced by kind permission of my collaborator Major F. Murcutt and the editors of the journals concerned.
agriculture environment
Pages
232
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120062
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi Salim Ali, S.B. Setna, H. Santapau view
Jungle Memories
201-213 E.G. Phythian-Adams view
Notes on the Nesting Habits of Seven Representative Tropical Sea Birds
214-235 C.A. Gibson-Hill view
The Indian Caddis Flies (Trichoptera)
236-245 Martin Mosely view
The Nilgiris Revisited
246-260 M. A. Wynter-Blyth view
The Bionomics of Ribbon Fishes (Trichiurus Spp.) and their Fishery on the West Coast of Madras Province
261-264 P.K. Jacob view
A Supplementary List of the Food-Plants of the Indian BombycidÆ AgaristidÆ and NoctuidÆ
265-276 D.G. Sevastopulo view
Artificial Key to the PapilionaceÆ of Bombay Province
277-282 H. Santapau view
Wild Life Reserves in India Bihar Province
283-289 Jamal Ara view
Preservation of Wild Life in India
290-299 R.W. Burton view
MicrocoS Blattaefolia (Corner) Seshagiri Rao Nov. Comb.
300-302 R. Rao view
The Study of Indian Molluscs
303-334 James Hornell view
Identity of Microbracon Brevicornis Wesm and Microbracon Hebetor Say
335-337 M.C. Cherian, V. Margabandhu view
Sweet Flag (Acorus Calamus)—a Potential Source of Valuable Insecticide
338-341 T.V. Subramaniam view
Reviews
342-346 unknown view
Obituary
347-352 unknown view
Miscellaneous Notes
353-382 unknown view
Catalogue of Books in the Bombay Natural History Society’s Library
383-400 unknown view

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