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means unknown, and, in fact, two were shot in 

 the Central Provinces during the year 1911. 

 As an instance of the contempt in which these 

 brutes hold the native, it was also in 1911 that 

 one broke, according to the Pioneer Mail, 

 into the Small Arms Factory at Kirkee, one 

 morning at an hour when all hands were at 

 work and managed to maul a native before 

 some of the Europeans could shoot it, which 

 they subsequently did. The favourite meal of 

 the leopard is a dog, and it is bold enough, 

 when hungry, to snatch one from under its 

 owner's nose. Tigers are much less given to 

 stealing dogs in India than leopards, but in 

 Burma they often do so. The largest leopards 

 kill deer and antelopes, but the smaller prey 

 on hares, monkeys, and jungle-fowl. So bitter 

 is the feud between leopards and dogs, that 

 not only is the leopard commonly attacked by 

 wild dogs, but even a small pack of tame ones 

 will, without difficulty, bring one to bay in a 

 tree. It is more active during the day than the 

 tiger, and is found in the mountains up to an 

 elevation of eight thousand feet, which would 

 be about the lowest limit of the snow-leopard, 

 or ounce, a magnificent animal with a long, 

 furry skin, which is thought to live as high as 

 twenty thousand feet. Though both are large 

 cats, the leopard and tiger differ in their manner 

 of feeding, for whereas the tiger begins with the 



