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muzzle-loader, which, on the chance of getting a deer, he loaded with a bullet 

 and four buckshot. Moving quietly through the jungle he came suddenly on 

 a tiger feeding on the carcase of a dead sambur. He fired at about 20 

 paces, and the tiger rolled over. On going up to it he found, to his utter 

 amazement, not one but two tigers lying dead within a few feet of each 

 other ! 



I subsequently superintended the skinning of these tigers, and made a 

 post-mortem examination of the bodies. The shot which killed them must 

 indeed have been a marvellously lucky one. 



In one case a single buckshot, no larger than a pea, had struck the beast 

 low down behind the shoulder, gone through the centre of the heart, and 

 lodged under the skin on the opposite side. There was no other wound. 

 This was a tigress 7 feet 10 inch in length, fair measurement. 



The second tiger was a young male, 7 feet 3 inches in length, and had also 

 been killed by one'of these insignificant pellets, which had entered under 

 the elbow, cut through the heart, and passed on down the body. Another 

 slug had struck the animal on the head, but this wound was trifling. 



Both beasts had their stomachs full of pieces of the deer's flesh and hair. 

 The tigress had also eaten a quantity of green grass. The Malay's story was 

 told with every appearance of truth ; indeed he seemed to see nothing 

 surprising in it at all. 



The gods send me such luck if ever I meet a brace of tigers in jungle with 

 nothing but a charge of buckshot ! 



A. L. BUTLER, F.Z.S., 



Selangor State Museum, 

 Kuala Ldmpor, 

 Federated Malay States, July, 1898. 



No. XXIII,— MIGRATION OF EUFLCEA CORE. 



I daresay other members of the Society, as well as myself, noticed the 

 remarkable migration of Euplcea core over Bombay on the 26th and 27th of 

 last month. I noticed it first about 4 o'clock on the former date ; it was 

 resumed early on the following morning, and continued till the afternoon at 

 least. The habit which this butterfly has of migrating northwards annually 

 about the first week of June has been noticed before in our journal, and I have 

 observed it for many years past ; but this movement in a contrary direction 

 two months later is a new thing to me and is very interesting. I do not think 

 that jB. core is a long-lived butterfly, and it is very unlikely that the individuals 

 which came from the north last week were the same as those which passed 

 in the opposite direction last June. More probably they were the first off- 



