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also the trade in chinchilla. About 3,000,000 South American nutrias are 
killed every year, and a very large business is carried on in musk-rat skins. 
About 15,000 each of American bear and buffalo skins were used last year. 
There are also used each year about 3,000,000 lamb, 5,000,000 rabbit, - 
6,000,000 squirrel, and 620,000 filch skins ; also 195,000 European hamster, 
and nearly 5,000,000 European and Asiatic hares. 
Tigers, p. 168.—Since writing on the subject of the size of tigers I have 
received the following extract from a letter addressed to the editor of Zhe 
Asian. Both the animals were measured on the ground before being 
skinned, and in the presence of all whose names are given :— 
“Tiger shot on the 6th of July, 1882. Party present: C. A. Shillingford, 
Esq.; J. L. Shillingford, Esq.; F. A. Shillingford, Esq. ; A. J. Shillingford, 
Esq. Length of head, 1 ft. 83 in.; body, 5 ft. 63 in.; tail, 3 ft. 63 in. ; total 
length, 10 ft. 93 in. Height-at shoulder, 3 ft. 7 in. 
“Tiger shot on the 17th of March, 1883. Party present: The Earl of 
Yarborough); A. E. Fellowes, Esq. ; ‘Col. R. C. Money, B.S.C. ; Capt. C. H. 
Mayne, A.D.C.; Lieut. R. Money; J. D. Shillingford, Esq. Length of 
head, 1 ft. 8 in,; body, 5 ft. 7 in.; tail, 3 ft. 54 in.; total length, 10 ft. 83 in. 
Height at shoulder, 3 ft. 84 in.; girth of head round jaw, 3 ft. 13 in.; girth 
of body round chest, 4 ft. 7 in. 
“.The latter animal, though not so long as the former, was the larger animal 
of the two, being more massively built, and by far the finer specimen of a 
tiger. He was shot by Mr. Fellowes while out shooting in the Maharajah of 
Darbhanga’s hunt in the Morung Terai.” 
The following is an extract from a letter lately received by me from 
General Sir Charles Reid, K.C.B., with reference to an enormous tiger killed 
by him :— 
“T had a tiger in the Exhibition of 1862, and which is now in the museum 
at Leeds, which was the largest tiger I ever killed or ever saw. As he lay 
on the ground he measured 12 feet 2 inches—his height I did not measure— 
from the tip of one ear to the tip of the other 193 inches. I never took 
skull measurements, nor did I ever weigh a tiger. I had another in the 
International Exhibition, which measured 11% feet fair measurement as he 
lay on the ground. The one at Leeds 12 feet 2 inches, as before mentioned, 
is not now more than 11 feet 6 inches. Mr. Ward was not satisfied with 
the Indian curing, and had it done over again, and it shrunk nearly a foot. 
* The three tigers* mentioned are the largest I ever killed—all Dhoon tigers.” 
Elephants, p. 394.—The two Indian elephants now in the Zoological 
Society’s Gardens, in Regent’s Park, are interesting examples of the growth 
of these animals in captivity. I regret extremely that I have not been able 
to get accurate statistics regarding them before leaving England ; I was 
obliged to put off several proposed visits to the Gardens in consequence of ill 
* The third tiger is one which Sir Charles Reid has had set up, and is now in his 
house ; it measured, as he lay on the ground, Io ft. 6in. He then goes on to say 
that his father-in-law had killed in the Dhoon four or five tigers over 11 feet, and 
that the late Sir Andrew Waugh told him he had killed one in the same place 
13 feet. He says: ‘‘I believe the Dhoon tigers are the largest and finest beasts 
that are found in any, part of India.”’ Their coats are longer and thicker also. 
