The Living Animals of the World 



[Hamburg. 



soon counted fifty ; but they would not go 



near the buffalo. Then some crows, bolder 



than the rest, flew down, and made a great 



row over their meal. All of a sudden they 



all flew up, and I made certain it was the 



tiger. Then my brother fired, and there 



he was, shot right through the brain, lying 



just above the buffalo. He had been brought 



down by the noise the crows were making. 



Upon driving the skolas (small woods on 



these hills), tigers were often put out. Some- 

 times they availed themselves of the drive 



to secure food for themselves. A wood was 



being driven, when a tremendous grunting 



was heard, and out rushed an old boar, bristling 



and savage. B was about to raise his 



rifle, when a growl like thunder stopped 



him, and a great tiger with one spring 



cleared the nullah, and alighted on the back 



of the old boar. Such a battle then took 



place that, what with the growls of the tiger 



and the squeals of the boar, one might believe 



oneself in another world. I thought of nothing 



but of how to kill one or the other, or both ; 



so, as they were rolling down over and over, 



about fifty yards from me on the open hill- 

 side, I let fly both barrels. For a second or 



two the noise went on ; then the tiger jumped 



off, and the boar struggled into the nullah 



close by. The tiger pulled up, and coolly 



stared at us without moving ; but his courage seemed to fail him, and he sprang into the 



nullah and disappeared." 



In most parts of India tigers are now scarce and shy, except in the preserves of the 



great rajas, and the dominions of some mighty and pious Hindu potentates, such as the 



Maharaja of Jeypur, who, being supposed to be descended from a Hindu god, allows no wild 



animals to be killed. There the deer and 

 pig are so numerous that tigers are welcome 

 to keep them down. But the Sunderbunds, 

 unwholesome islands at the Ganges mouth, 

 still swarm with them. So does the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



Mr. J. D. Cobbold shot a tiger in 

 Central Asia in a swamp so deep in snow 

 and so deadly cold that he dared not stay 

 for fear of being frozen to death. Tigers 

 sometimes wander as far west as the 

 Caucasus near the Caspian. The farther 

 north, the larger your tiger, is the rule. 

 The biggest ever seen in Europe was 

 a Siberian tiger owned by Herr Carl 



BJI permission of Herr Carl Hagtnbtck] 



A LEOPARD-PUMA HYBRID. 



This is a photograph from life of a very rare hybrid. The animals' 

 father was a puma, its mother a leopard. It is now dead, and may bt 

 seen stuffed in Mr. Rothschild's Museum at Tring. 



Photo by L. Mcdland, F.Z.S.] 



LEOPARDS. 



(North Finchley. 



A pair of leopards, one spotted, the other black. Black leopards may be the 

 offspring of the ordinary spotted form : they are generally much more savage 



Hagenbeck, of Hamburg, and the largest 

 known skin and skull is from the Far 



