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BIG GAME SHOOTING 



IV. TIGER ^Felis tigrls) 



The tiger is found throughout India wherever there is 

 suitable jungle, and extends through Burmah to the Malayan 

 Archipelago and China, but is not found in Ceylon. Sterndale 

 says : ' It has been found as far north as the island of 



Saghalien, which is bisected by 

 N. L. 50°. This is its extreme 

 north-eastern Hmit, the Cas- 

 pian Sea ^ being its westerly 

 boundary. From parallel 50° 

 downwards it is found in many 

 parts of the highlands of 

 Central Asia.' 



The biggest tigers the 

 writer has heard of are one of 

 13 ft. that Sir Charles Reid 



>|5^^' 



Howdah shooting 



quotes as having been shot by the late Sir Andrew Waugh,'- and 

 one of 12 ft. 4 ins. quoted in a letter by Mr. F. A. Shillingford 

 to ' The Asian ' as having been shot by Mr. C. A. Shillingford 

 of Munshye in 1849 \ ^'^^ Williamson, writing about the year 

 1805 of a tiger killed by Mr. Paul, the superintendent of the 



^ Tigers have been shot in the Caucasus west of the Caspian. 

 - Note to Appendix C, Sterndale's Mammalia. 



