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TIGERS (Royal Bengal), when full grown, 

 measure from eight to ten feet from 

 the tip of the nose to the end of the tail. 

 The tail averages about three feet in length. 

 The weight of the animal varies, of course, con- 

 siderably at different stages of growth. A full- 

 grown tiger would turn the scale at five hundred 

 pounds. The reader will understand my helpless- 

 ness when assailed by a creature of this vast 

 bulk, and the inconvenience of the pressure when 

 he was lying on top of me. The colour of the 

 tiger is brightest when young and vigorous, the 

 colour becomes fainter with advancing age. White, 

 or rather cream-coloured tigers, though rare, are 

 not altogether unknown. It is stated in ''The 

 Royal Natural History," edited by Richard 

 Lydekker, that a specimen was exhibited in the 

 menagerie at Exeter Change in 1820. Major D. 

 Robinson, of the Lancashire Fusiliers, found 

 another at Puna; and Colonel H. H. Goodwin- 



