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" a shot. Now tliis, I consider, as very probably the manner 

 " in which the tiger on these hills takes his prey at night, and 

 " we can imagine it to be most destructive. Whether I have 

 " a right to designate this "Royal animal" an arrant "Poacher," 

 " where he is only engaged in the lawful pursuit which nature has 

 " accorded to him, I don't know ! but that the rascal kills no 

 " end of game without leave or license, is plain enough, and under 

 " that I dub him " Poacher" and a desperate one too !" 



" Tigers are not particular as to the state of their food being fresh 

 " or otherwise. It was observed on the Annamallies that these 

 " animals seldom indeed never were found to resort to the car- 

 " cases of the bison that had been shot, until the effluvia from 

 " them was exceedingly strong, indeed, it may be said when in the 

 " highest state of putrefaction ; and, on one occasion, when the 

 " tiger had dragged the putrefied carcass some distance, the sports- 

 " man was able to follow it up to the spot by the scent, and found 

 " the tiger quietly reposing close to the offensive remnants of the 

 "bison. Whether this feature in the character of the tiger is 

 " restricted to the Annamallies, or may be attributable to the wide 

 " range of forest land extending for miles over hill and dale, 

 " through which the tigers there may roam, far distant from the 

 " kill to which he is eventually attracted by its decomposition, I 

 " cannot say ; but we know that whenever he kills game or cattle, 

 " if undisturbed, he returns to his prey, until (with or without 

 " the help of jackals or vultures) the whole is consumed ; and it 

 " must then be pretty " high." In many cases it has been noticed 

 " that he makes his lair conveniently near at hand, to prevent the 

 " intrusion of any such assistants in the demolition of the carcass ; 

 " on one occasion I was present, when the noise of the descent of 

 " a large number of vultures on a dead buffalo, lying just outside a 

 " sholah, caused the tiger who had killed it to put in an appearance 

 " at noon-day, and protect his rights to the beef from the feathered 

 " tribe ; and not one of the birds would go near the body so long 

 " as Mr. Stripes was in sight. In a sholah near Peermund, a 

 " regular larder was found, to which a tiger had frequently resorted 

 " and apparently dragged his game, there to devour it at con- 

 " venience ; the large quantity of bones and remnants proving how 



