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the Tiger came up to liim, smelt about him, and then 

 rul)bed himself against the man, and afte^^Ya^ds left him 

 untouched. 



Tigers are said to begin eating their prey at the hind 

 quarters. Tigers will at times eat fish, frogs and 

 carrion. 



One thousand four hundred and sixty-four Tigers were 

 killed in British India in 1886. 



The value of a good Bengal Tiger skin is about £1 to 

 £6 ; and the value of a Tiger-claw is from 9d. to 5s. : 

 these are mounted for pins by jewellers. The Bengal 

 Tiger rarely exceeds 11 feet. 



One thousand and sixty-three human beings were 

 killed by Tigers in India in 1888. 



Albinos, or White Tigers, are extremely scarce and 

 are very beautiful ; the stripes are generally light brown, 

 but we have seen a white skin with dark drab stripes. 

 There has recently been an extraordinary number of 

 Tigers in Java ; in 1846 a black, or very dark brown, 

 Tiger is said to have been seen at Tipper ah, near 

 Chittagong. 



The Mongolian or Chinese Tiger. — This woolly 

 variety of the Tiger has the fur or pelage of great 

 richness, and has consequently been classed as a different 

 species by some naturalists. Very little seems to be 

 known -of it in Science, although it is well known in 

 Commerce. 



The fur of this animal, as before said, is very thick, 

 and is often 1^ to 2 inches in length, and on the belly 

 it is much longer (several inches), like a Lynx. 



The general colour is paler than the Bengal animal, 

 and it is of a less ferocious disposition. 



The stripes are scarcely so black as in the Bengal 



