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Tons. This ridge, being from 8,000 to 10,000 feet above the sea, is 

 covered with snow from December to the end of March, so that 

 durin°- the winter she remained at the lower elevations round Kama 

 Sarai. Bat so soon as the snows were melted, she would come np 

 ao-ain, although daring April-May and October-November the tem- 

 perature on the ridge after sundown stands constantly in the vicinity 

 of freezing, and is often low enough for the ground to remain frozen 

 hard for hours after the sun is up. 



" There can be no doubt that she took to man-eating under stress 

 of long starvation, due to the difficulty of securing game in the 

 steep mountainous country in which she had established herself- 

 Previous to her appearance tigers were unknown so far north in 

 Jaunsar. 



"About that time, however, professional graziers (Gujars), 

 gradually forced to move eastwards from Kashmere owing to scarcity 

 of grazing for their increasing herds, reached the Dehra Dun. The 

 custom of these men is to remain in the hills until driven down to 

 the Sub-Himalayan forests by the severe winter there. Our tigress 

 thus no doubt followed the herds from the Dun forests, and got left 

 behind when these went down again at the beginning- of winter. 



" She appears from the very first to have had cubs with her, which 

 fact probably accounts for her great destmctiveness and boldness 

 soon after her arrival in the hills. In September 1880 she took up 

 her quarters, with three nearly full-grown cubs, in the neighbourhood 

 of Deoban, o| miles above Ckakrata, and killed three men within a 

 fortnight. One of these cubs was shot on September 15th by 

 Mr. Smythies almost at the upper end of Chakrata ; another was 

 killed by Mr. Lowrie eight days later; while the third, put up with 

 the mother in a beat only five days after, got away wounded. 

 Through all the vigorous hunt after her and her cubs during a whole 

 fortnight the tigress escaped scatheless. 



"It has been already said above that she took toman-eating owing 

 to the precipitous nature of her haunts, which prevented her from 

 obtaining a sufficient supply of the usual food of tigers, viz., deer, 

 pigs, &c ,and, when opportunity offers, cattle. The same circumstance 

 drove her to attacking flocks of sheep and goats, which are very 

 numerous in those rich high-level pastures during the period from 

 the m3lting of the snows to the approach of winter. She would 

 make one or more rushes through a flock, killing several animals, 

 only a few of which she could eat. Thus her appetites were not 



