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sentinels, the man gives a slight cough, or a blow with his axe on a 

 tree, or some indication that he is there, so as to attract the tiger's 

 attention without alarming him. The animal turns from the unseen 

 danger or trouble, and ere long comes upon some other looker out, 

 who repeats the performance and so on until the beast fairly 

 puzzled, but not alarmed, settles himself for the day in some cool 

 ravine or shady bush. Once thus marked down tidings are sent 

 into camp, and the sportsman starts almost certain of finding his 

 game. After all, a few cool frogs should on a hot day be as 

 refreshing to a tiger as an ice would be to the man who starts in 

 pursuit of him. 



The same sportsman, who has had more experience both with 

 spear or rifle ;, mounted or on foot than any other of my acquaint- 

 ance, told, that he knew of one instance of bears eating carrion. In 

 this case it was the body of a bullock that had been killed by a 

 tiger, which, with the tigress and a cub he shot. On visiting the 

 spot the following day, he found that the carcass of the bullock 

 had been pulled to pieces and devoured by a couple of large 

 bears, which, quite gorged with their repast, he put out of a bush 

 close to the spot. 



It is well known that wild hog will eat carrion. 



No- 20- Felis Pardus- 



JERDON, No. 105, PAGE 97 ; THE PANTHER. 

 I cannot help thinking that there is only one species of panther, 

 leopard, or pard, whatever the proper name may be, and that the 

 varieties in color, shape, and size are accidental, or caused by cli- 

 mate or diet. I believe that a black cub has been found in a litter, 

 the rest of which were of the usual color. The three or four speci- 

 mens of the black panther I have seen, have always struck me as 

 being of a glossy, not as Jerdon has it, of " a dull black color." 

 Vide page 100 of his book. 



The specimen sent from Bangalore in 1867 (last year) and now 

 in England, a portrait of which is in the Illustrated London News 

 of the 8th February 1868, page 136, and the one now, August 1868, 



