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down by greyhounds, but gives an excellent run with foxhounds. They 

 are very tenacious of life, and sham dead in a way to deceive even an 

 expei'ienced sportsman. I have seen one, after being worried by a pack 

 of hounds, and getting a good rap or two on its head with a heavy whip, 

 limp off some time afterwards when unobserved, with apparently a good 

 chance of affording another run on a future day. I have known a 

 jackal come to the aid of his comrade (or mate perhaps) when seized by 

 greyhounds, and attack them furiously, whilst I was close by on 

 horseback. The call of the jackal is familiar to all residents in India, 

 and is certainly the most unearthly and startling music. The natives 

 assert that they cry after every watch of the night. Jackals not 

 unfrequntly get hydrophobia, especially in Bengal, and I have known 

 several fatal cases from their bite. 



Connected with the old name of the " lion's provider" are the generally 

 credited tales about one always attending the tiger. Mr. Elliot says, 

 " Native sportsmen universally believe that an old jackal, which (in the 

 South of India) they call ^Bhdlu,' is in constant attendance on the tiger, 

 and whenever his cry is heard, which is peculiar and different from that 

 of the jackal generally, the vicinity of a tiger is confidently pronounced. 

 I have heai'd the cry attributed to the Bhdlu, frequently." The " Kole 

 hhaloo" is frequently referred to by Lieutenant Rice, in his very in- 

 teresting work on " Tiger-shooting in Rajpootana," as having been 

 frequently heard and seen by him in company with the tiger. In 

 Bengal the same jackal is called " Pheall" or Pliao, or Pheeow, or 

 Phneiv, from its call, and in some parts Ghog, though that name is said 

 by some to refer to some other (fabulous) animal. " It is," says 

 Johnson, in his Field Sports of India, as quoted in the India Sporting 

 Review, N.S. vol. I., "a jackal following the scent of the tiger and 

 making a noise very different from their usual cry, which I imagine they 

 do for the purpose of warning their species of danger." Again, " Soon 

 after the tiger passed within a few yards of us. In a minute or two 

 after he had passed, we plainly saw the jackal, and heard him cry when 

 veiy near us. I have often heard it said that the Pheall (or provider, 

 as it is sometimes called) always goes before the tiger, but in this 

 instance he followed him, which I have also seen him do at other times. 

 Whether he is induced to follow the tiger for the sake of coming in for 

 part of the booty, or whether he merely follows as small birds often follow 

 a bird of prey, I cannot say. Evidently his cry is difierent from what 



