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mens fourteen feet long and over, but he died gallantly 

 in battle, and his name need not be given. 



With regard to the structure of his brain, the tiger is 

 gyrencephalous ; that is to say, the lobes exhibit a certain 

 degree of convolution. It may also be said that the 

 cerebral hemispheres project backwards so as to cover the 

 anterior border of the cerebellum, and that these greater 

 segments of the encephalon are completely connected. 

 The nervous structure is not of the highest type known 

 to exist among inferior animals, but it is quite high 

 enough not to militate against an empirical conclusion 

 that this creature's actions show it to be organically very 

 capable. 



Of the details of the every-day life of the tiger we 

 know comparatively little. Thousands of cattle, for in- 

 stance, are killed every year in India, and yet there is 

 but one narrative, so far as the writer knows, of a tiger 

 having been seen to stalk a quadruped of this kind. It 

 is quoted by J. Moray Brown (" Shikar Sketches ") from 

 Captain Pierson's relation of the incident. While hunting 

 in the jungles of Kamptee, he saw from the edge of a ravine 

 on which he was resting, a herd grazing on the ground just 

 below, and a tigress at a little distance reconnoitering. 

 Her choice fell in the first place upon a white cow that was 

 straggling, and she approached till within about eighty 

 yards under cover of the bushes, and then broke into a trot. 

 The cow, however, became aware of her danger, and after 

 standing a moment as if paralyzed with fear, dashed into 

 the midst of her companions. The tigress, which during 

 this time had continued to advance, then charged at once, 



