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and " in a few seconds she picked out a fine young cow, 

 upon whose shoulders she sprang, and they both rolled 

 over in a heap. When the two animals were still again, 

 we could distinctly see the cow standing up with her neck 

 embraced by the tigress, which was evidently sucking her 

 jugular. The poor creature then made a few feeble efforts 

 to release herself, which the tigress resented by breaking 

 her neck." Major H. Bevan (** Thirty Years in India") 

 saw a tiger " knock over a bullock with a single blow on 

 the haunch, and seizing the throat, lay across the body 

 sucking the blood." Major Leveson (" Hunting Grounds 

 of the Old World "), while lying out by a pool at night, 

 witnessed the death of a sambur deer that was struck down 

 and instantly killed by a tiger. Various narratives of the 

 tiger's attack might be quoted, but his behavior while steal- 

 ing upon his prey, the manner in which he seeks for it, 

 and the way in which it is discovered, these are points 

 that we know very little about. 



" The tiger is a shy, morose, and unsociable brute," 

 Dr. Fayrer remarks, " but like all animals of high type, 

 the range of individual differences is very great." " Nearly 

 every tiger," observes Moray Brown, "has a certain char- 

 acter for ferocity, wiliness or the reverse — of being a 

 man-eater, cattle-lifter, or game-killer — which is well 

 known to the jungle folk." 



The tiger's overlordship of the jungle is not maintained 

 without some reverses. A bear sometimes beats him off, 

 but usually these contests end in the bear's being devoured. 

 Sanderson, together with others, reports this upon per- 

 sonal observation. Wild boars occasionally avenge the 



