22 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 8. NIO 23. 



by the unfortunate man and his comrades it also escaped 

 leaving the man with a nasty wound on the right leg. One 

 night a Laos girl was killed by a tiger but the animal was 

 scared away before it had dragged the girl into the jungle. 



The following evening two Englishmen, who happened 

 to be in the neighbourhood, went out for the tiger to come 

 back and finish its interrupted feast, and they were lucky in 

 killing a very fine specimen. 



Tigers do not seem to be so fond of dog-meat as the 

 leopards, but a few times I also heard about dögs having 

 been killed by tigers. Like the leopards, the tigers at first 

 begin to eat the stomach and the intestines of the prey as 

 soon as it has been killed. 



In the neighbourhood of the villages I several times 

 noticed traps made by the natives for catehing tigers and 

 leopards. Such traps eonsisted of a cage made by bamboos 

 for the lure, generally a goat, a pig or a dog. To this cage 

 ran a narrow path över which was suspended a heavy branch 

 or a log which should fall down on the animal when trying 

 to force its way to the lure. Sometimes the natives also 

 were using pit-falls or traps with a loaded rifle, but both 

 these kinds were also used for trapping deer or pigs. 



When hunting tigers or leopards the elephants are never 

 used as in India and there are no trained Hunting Elephants 

 to be found över the whole of Siarn, Therefore the only 

 way to shoot tigers in Siarn is either to wait up in a tree 

 över a kill or to use beaters, which, however, the Siamese 

 do not like, especially when after dangerous game. 



25. Felis pardus L. — Leopards were exceedingly com- 

 mon especially on the Korat plateau, and during my stay 

 at the small Laos villages of Sakerat and Non Luum dögs 

 and fowls were snatched away nearly every night. But 

 according to their habits of keeping in the densest jungles 

 during day-time, leopards are seldom seen or shot by the 

 Europeans, and even the natives seldom succeed in killing a 

 leopard except when using especially made traps. Leo- 

 pards seldom attack people, but if they are wounded they 

 always charge, and at such occasions they are much more 

 dangereous than tigers owing to their smaller size and 

 their great speed when charging. I only once heard about 



