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At intervals the stream opens out and forms a clear rush-fringed pool, and the trees receding on either bank leave a lovely grassy glade, where the deer and nilghau come to drink. On the glassy bosom of the pool in the centre, fine duck, mallard, and teal, can frequently be found, and the rushes round the margin are to a certainty good for a couple of brace of snipe.

Nightjars, noise made by some male, with their wings; elongated feathers in. Nilghau, sexual differences of colour in the. Nilsson, Prof., on the resemblance of stone arrow-heads from various places; on the development of the horns of the reindeer. Nipples, absence of, in Monotremata. Nitsche, Dr., ear of foetal orang. Nitzsch, C.L., on the down of birds. Noctuae, brightly-coloured beneath.

It is, however, different in North Bhaugulpore, where there are still vast tracts of forest jungle, the haunt of the spotted deer, nilghau, leopard, wolf, and other wild animals.

We went back two days after with five elephants, which with great difficulty we had got together , and thoroughly beat the patch of nurkool, killed a lot of pig and a couple of deer, shot an alligator, and destroyed over thirty of its eggs, which we discovered on the bank of the creek; and returning in the evening shot a nilghau and a black buck, but the tigress had disappeared.