Game Animals of India, etc. 



of tigers, which must have tackled her from both sides 

 at the same time, and buried deep their fangs in her 

 jugular veins and finished her off quickly. The skin 

 did not seem to have been injured much, and it lay 

 like a pall, or rather a tarpaulin, covering the whole 

 skeleton." 



The ordinary cry of the tiger is stated to be very 

 similar to the lion's roar, but is much less frequently 

 uttered, tigers never standing and emitting roar after 

 roar for an hour together after the manner of lions in 

 Africa. When surprised, a tiger springs up with a loud 

 "woof" ; while, when angered, it gives vent to a growl. 

 Different from all of these is the hoarse guttural sound of 

 a charging tiger, repeated two or three times during the 

 short furious rush. Although occasionally reaching as 

 many as six, the number of tiger-cubs in a litter usually 

 varies between two and five ; but two is the most 

 common number, and three the next. In all cases of 

 twins the cubs are respectively male and female. Now 

 it is a well-known fact that tigresses are much more 

 numerous than tigers, and it would be an interesting 

 matter to ascertain whether, in the case of triplets, two 

 of the cubs belong to the female sex. Even, however, 

 if this should prove to be the case, it may be doubtful 

 if the occurrence of triplets is sufficiently common to 

 account for the disparity in the numbers of the two 

 sexes. The cubs require about three years to attain 

 full growth, the greater portion of this time being 

 spent with the female parent, which does not appear 

 to breed more frequently than every second, or possibly 

 every third year. 



Many years ago, in the Journal of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal, I described the lower jaw of a tiger 

 containing a small additional molar tooth (or rather 

 the socket for the reception of the same) behind the 

 carnassial or flesh -tooth. In a recent issue of the 

 Zoologischer Anzeiger Mr. Hilzheimer (who appears 

 to be unacquainted with the foregoing case) recorded 



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