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been known to kill a vulture which he caught helping himself 

 to the kill. Solitary wild dogs have been known to follow 

 tigers about, presumably in the hope of obtaining a share of 

 the spoil. I was once sitting over a cow, one of four 

 which had been killed by the same tiger ; two carcases had 

 been cut up and removed, and I expected Stripes to visit the 

 one over which I sat sentinel, for the fourth kill was not 

 discovered till the following morning. I waited all night in 

 vain, and at daylight found that the tiger had made a hearty 

 meal of the, till then unsuspected, fourth kill. The tracks of 

 a wild dog were noticed following, and in some instances 

 covering the tiger's pad marks, and I found that the wild dog 

 had accompanied the tiger to within a short distance of the 

 kill, where the dog had apparently laid down, and from this 

 place the dog tracks led straight to the partially consumed 

 carcase, on which the weaker marauder had presumably 

 regaled himself after the departure of the chief actor. 



I have heard of a species of grey wolf which is said to exist 

 in Burma. My informant states that he saw them on two 

 occasions in the Shwebo district. On the first occasion there 

 was only one animal, but on the second there were two, and 

 so near was he when he encountered them that they snarled 

 at him before disappearing in the bush. I had never come 

 across any of these animals during my wanderings, in either 

 Upper or Lower Burma, and was unaware till now that they 

 were to be found. I have also learned from another source 

 that a wolf cub 1 was caught in the Zamani forest, Pegu 

 district, and brought down to Rangoon, where it lived for 

 about eight years, only to fall a victim by the hands of an 

 over-zealous Burman constable, who poisoned it in compliance 

 with the municipal rules for destroying dogs. 



1 These were probably wild dogs, and not wolves. F. T. P. 



