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man-eating Leopard that had killed about 150 people, some 
thirty miles from Rampur Bauleah. 
Leopards are also not free from the charge of occasionally 
eating one another, as proved by the following note contributed 
by Major H. D. Olivier to the “Journal” of the Bombay 
Natural History Society for 1893. The letter runs as follows: 
“In 1884 I was staying with D., a forest-officer in the Panch 
Mahals, near to Sodhra. Whilst we were sitting out one even- 
ing on the side of a hill, where we had been for a walk, a Pan- 
ther came along and stood within ten yards of us. D. hada 
rifle with him, but on my whispering to him that there was a 
Panther close by him, he turned round so quickly that the 
Panther saw him and disappeared. We decided to tie upa 
couple of Goats, but nothing came that night except a Hyzena, 
which D. shot. The next evening, however, D. wounded a 
Panther, but it was too late to follow it up. During the night 
we heard one calling for its mate all over the hill, and next 
morning, whilst searching for tracks, our attention was called 
by one of the men to something in the fork of a large tree close 
by, and on nearer inspection this turned out to be the body of 
the wounded Panther, whose hind-quarters were half-eaten, and 
the skin, of course, worried. The ‘gallant husband’ who had 
_ performed this act of cannibalism had left the marks of his 
claws on the tree, where some five feet above the ground he 
had sprung up on to the trunk. 
““Most sportsmen will remember having, in the course of 
their shooting expeditions, come across trees which, from the 
marks of blood on some large fork, were evidently regular 
resorts to which the resident Panther of the neighbourhood 
was in the habit of taking its prey for consumption, and this — 
tree was a case in point.” 
To give some idea of the ravages committed by Leopards 
and Tigers, we may quote from the Government Report for the 
