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The blue-winged teal An excellent bird Cotton and whistling 

 teal Not worth shooting Widgeon and pochards Swarm in 

 thousands Mallard Similar to the English bird The spotted bill 

 and gadwall The pin-tailed duck The red-crested pochard and 

 white-eyed duck The shoveller Wild geese Two varieties The 

 common, or grey-bag, and the pink-footed goose A curious hybrid 

 bird, half goose, half duck Bittern Same as the English bird 

 Ground game Hare only No rabbits in India Hare afford good 

 coursing with Persian hounds 222 



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Remnants of Babajee gang Joined by the Barwattis A formidable 

 coalition Bounding them up Another European officer shot dead 

 The gang finally destroyed More about tigers A tigress and three 

 cubs Monkeys announce their presence I shoot the tigress 

 Driving out the cubs Two rolled over Beaters dispose of third 

 Wounded tigers often lost Cases in point (1) A tiger on an island 

 The beat begun A momentary glimpse Snap -shooting Crash- 

 ing through the jungle Mysterious disappearance " Here he is 1 " 

 Found dead under water ! A mangy specimen A remarkable 

 dying effort (2) Another instance Three tigers put up Two soon 

 disposed of In pursuit of the third Marked down A snap-shot 

 again Concluded he was missed Further search abandoned 

 Found dead the next day Man-eating tigers Happily now rare 

 Indenting on ancient history Alarming news at 5 a.m. Camp in 

 transit Attacked by man-eater Disobedience of orders A bullock 

 driver carried off Panic-stricken servants Pursuit taken up The 

 body found half eaten Man-eating tigers on high road The traffic 

 held up Seven hundred human victims ! Mail-cart attacked 

 Tiger jumps from a hillock Horse badly scarred Shown to travellers 

 as a curiosity 230 



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