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where the vicinity of good cover and water are 

 necessary. 



In choosing sites you must use your discretion. 

 Apart from the question of a suitable tree, if you 

 select a place with long open vistas of nullah or 

 road the tiger is more likely to see the tie-up ; 

 but it is not nearly so probable that he will give 

 you a daylight shot as in a cramped quiet spot 

 with ample grass and undergrowth. 



2. Difference between Tiger and Panther 

 Kill. — Chiefly that tiger always eat buttock 

 first, instead of the stomach portion as a panther 

 does. But consult any big game book and ask 

 your local men. 



3. Hours to expect Tiger and Panther to 

 arrive. — If they really mean business both 

 should arrive by 9 p.m. Panther are not worth 

 sitting up for after that hour. Always sit up 

 for tiger all night. After 9 p.m. tiger generally 

 come at about midnight or an hour before dawn. 

 If your arrangements are good and the locality 

 is quiet, you should have a good chance after 

 4 P.M. I have shot 6 tiger and 5 panther by day- 

 hght. 



Time should be allowed for settling into the 

 machan. I find I have to reckon on three- 

 quarters of an hour to get the light fixed and 

 everything in its place. 



When sitting \ip for panther be seated and 

 loaded before your goat is tied up. This is 

 chiefly to avoid being discovered by the goat, 

 which would then not bleat. But it is also be- 

 cause panther have a trick of arriving in a hurry. 



Once I rode out thirty miles, and got into a 



