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persecutor. Some reference to the enormous destruction of 
human life by Tigers, and likewise the loss inflicted by them 
on cattle-owners, is made under the head of the Leopard. 
A Snake seems a rather extraordinary meal for a Tiger, but 
in the “Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society ” for 
1893, Mr. J. D. Inverarity writes that on opening the stomach 
of a Tigress ‘‘he found in it the tail-end of a Snake that the 
Tigress had bitten off and swallowed whole; the portion 
swallowed measured two feet three inches in length. Though 
quite fresh, the pattern of the skin was rather spoiled by diges- 
tion, and I am not sure what kind of snake it was, but it 
appeared to me to be a Rock-Snake. There were no teeth 
marks on it, nor was there any breakage of the bones. It 
seems somewhat remarkable that a piece of this length should 
be bolted whole. The natives thought that the Tigress had 
caught it in the water when she went to drink. I should estimate 
the piece bitten off at about one third of the Snake’s length.” 
Cattle are killed generally by the Tiger seizing the fore- 
quarters with his fore-paws, one of which is generally thrown 
across the animal’s shoulders, while the throat is gripped from 
below by the jaws ; a sudden upward wrench, during which the 
destroyer sometimes springs to the off side of his victim, results 
in causing the dislocation of the neck of the latter. Occa- 
sionally, however, cattle are seized by the neck ; while it is 
possible that on rare occasions a blow from the powerful paw 
may be the immediate cause of death. Still more rarely, large 
animals, such as Gaur and Buffalo, are hamstrung by Tigers. 
In devouring its prey, a Tiger invariably, or almost always, 
commences its meal on the flesh of the hind-quarters. 
Although, as already mentioned, uttered much less frequently, 
the roar of the Tiger is very similar to that of the Lion ; and 
it has been well described as a prolonged moaning, thrilling 
sound at the commencement, which is repeated two or three 
