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[[header note]] X Sus - Wild boar not known here but on Bhamo road near border [[/header note]]
4 - Sambhur Cervus (Rusa)
One shot by me near Wa-tien a fine ♂ horns hard, lg. 27½ inches. This one was with a ♀ &  both were driven out of a forest by dogs & men as beaters. Shot as it ran [[strikethrough]] up [[/strikethrough]] over an open field of buckwheat on a hillside. A single ♀ was flushed that evening in bamboo at edge of forest. Next day the beaters drove out a ♂ but it escaped unseen by us. The following day a ♂ & ♀ were driven out of a deep wooded ravine but escaped before we got into action, none were ever seen still hunting at edge of forest but the natives said they sometimes saw them at daybreak on edge of clearings.
5 Ursus (black large)
A large black bear is reported in the forested mountains.
6 Ursus (black small) Lao-shuing
Cubs of the common black bear were brought in Tengyueh in middle of April which were small & perhaps a month old. Later another pair were 

Transcription Notes:
Sus is the pig genus Sambhur = Sambar (deer)