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fifth day ; three days being employed in feasting on the carcass and resting in 

 the intervals, while during the other twO' food was not specially sought. This, 

 when we remember the number of these animals in certain parts of India, will 

 give some idea of the losses they occasion. According to a return issued by 

 the Government, it appears that in the Madras Presidency, during the cjuarter 

 ending 31st December, 1900, the number of animals killed by tigers and 

 leopards included 656 bullocks, 752 cows, 236 calves, 135 buffaloes, 105 sheep 

 and 103 goats. In the returns for all India for one year, during which 1,835 

 cattle were killed, the total loss was set down at a little short of 60,000 head, 



A T'AMILY OF SIBERIAN TIGERS. 



of which 20,000 were assigned to tigers, and an equal number to leopards. 

 Although the man-eating tiger is much more dreaded, the cattle-lifting tiger 

 is regarded with supreme indifference by the herdsmen of the districts it infests. 

 It is only of late years that the existence of tigers in Siberia has been 

 known. Heretofore it was supposed to be purely a tropical animal, but it 

 is now found in snowy fields and forests and the colds plateaus of Asia. It 

 is distributed over China to the northward of Amur territory and Eastern 

 Siberia, and in Asia over the Altai to Northern Persia and Lake Aral. The 

 most powerful species is the East Siberian tiger, rivaling the Royal Bengal 



