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where there was not sufficient cover for a quail, selected as his 

 point of exit the buggy of a native gentleman, who sought 

 refuge between the wheels ; his groom, being unfortunately in 

 the way as the tiger cleared the conveyance, was knocked 

 over, but luckily more frightened than hurt. The tiger then 

 took refuge in a garden, pursued by the elephants. On 

 their arrival at the spot the gardener was found placidly pur- 

 suing his avocation, and, on being asked if he had seen the 

 beast, imprudently pointed him out. The tiger at once sprang 

 on the man, upset him and bolted ; but as he was now heading 

 for the English doctor's stables he was considered to be 

 becoming dangerous, and was cleverly shot by the Maharajah. 

 Sanderson, in describing the way a tiger attacks and kills 

 his prey, says that in attacking a bison his object is to get the 

 latter to charge, and then, avoiding the rush, to follow on the 

 instant and endeavour to emasculate the bull by striking him 

 behind. In killing cattle he writes : 



The general method is for the tiger to slink up under cover of 

 bushes or long grass, ahead of the cattle in the direction they are 

 feeding, and to make a rush at the first cow or bullock that comes 

 within five or six yards. The tiger does not spring upon his prey 

 in the manner usually represented. Clutching the bullock's fore- 

 quarters with his paws, one being generally over the shoulder, he 

 seizes the throat in his jaws from underneath, and turns it upwards 

 and over, sometimes springing to the far side in doing so, to throw 

 the bullock over, and give the wrench which dislocates its neck. 



Sir S. Baker writes that while lions and cheetahs {Felis 

 jubata) use their paws in striking down their prey at the 

 moment of capture, tigers apparently never do. Sanderson 

 points out that Forsyth, as also Captain Baldwin in his 

 large and Small Game of Bengal,' agree that tigers seize by 

 ihe back of the neck, and then give the dislocating wrench. 

 Jhe writer noticed the fang-marks on a good many kills in 

 Central India, and certainly they appeared from their position 

 rather low down, apparently too much so to have been in- 

 dicted by a bite on the back of the neck — si tiger's jaw is not very 



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