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x Das - Wild boar most common here.
but on Bhamo road near border
4 - Sambhur Cervus (Rusa)
One shot by me near Wa-teen
a fine & huge hard kg. 27 1/2 inch?
This on us with a female both were
driven out of forest by dogs,
men as beaters. Shot as it ran
up over an open field of buckwheat
on a hillside. A single cow
flashed that evening in Bambus
edge forest. Next day the
beaters drove at 5 but it stayed
unseen by us. The following
day a big herd under way for a
deep wooded ravine but escaped
before me got into action.
None were ever seen still hunting
at edge of forest but the natives
and the sometimes saw them
as daybreak on edge of clearings,
5 Ursus (Black Large)
A large black bear is reported
in the forested mountains.
6 Ursus (Black small) Far-shining
One of the common black
bear were bought in T. Sengyok
in middle of April which were
small & perhaps a month old.
Later another pair were