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Turkestan, Afghanistan, India, Assam, Burma, the Malay Pen- 
insula, Sumatra, Java, and China, to Manchuria and Amurland. 
In India found almost everywhere, from the Himalaya (where 
‘t ascends to the height of 6,000 or 7,000 feet above the sea- 
level) to Cape Comorin ; but unknown in Ceylon. As men- 
tioned above, its absence from the latter island leads to the 
inference that the Tiger is a comparatively recent immigrant 
into India from the east or north. It has frequently been 
stated that the Tiger is found in Borneo; but according to a 
list of the Mammals of that island published by Mr. Everett in 
the ‘‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society ” for 1892, this is 
not the case. Sumatra and Java seem, therefore, to mark the 
limits of its eastern range in this region: a circumstance 
strongly in favour of its no:thern origin. Associated with 
those of the Mammoth, fossilised remains of the Tiger have 
been discovered in the New Siberian Islands, situated some 
to within the Arctic Circle, and only slightly to the south of 
the parallel of the North Cape. 
_-Habits.—Fully equal, if, indeed, not superior to the Lion in 
strength, activity, and courage, the Tiger is likewise one of the 
few non-climbing Cats; but it is specially distinguished from 
its near cousin by its much more silent habits, as well as by its 
marked partiality for water, in the near neighbourhood of which 
its lair is always situated. It is this partiality for water that 
makes Tigers so numerous in the Sandarbans and on Saugor 
Island, at the mouth of the Hughli, where some of the finest 
specimens are to be met with. As nocturnal in its general 
habits as the Lion, the Tiger is a much less sociable animal 
than the latter, the males generally going about alone, and the 
sexes only coming together during the breeding-season. Oc- 
casionally, however, five or six Tigers have been seen in 
company ; and it appears that these are family-parties which 
have remained together, instead of dispersing after the usual 
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