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his friend hearing the shot came running up and seeing the 

 tiger lying on Outram was about to fire when Outram called 

 out " don't fire, he's dead, come and pull him off me," and 

 strange to say he escaped without a scratch. The bullet 

 fortunately had struck the tiger at the junction of the head 

 and neck, severing the spine, killing it instantaneously. 



Two tigers will often hunt in concert, generally in 

 couples. I have often watched them acting thus when ap- 





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proaching a herd of deer. A brother officer told me that 

 he saw a tiger drive a deer up to some rocks where another 

 one was crouching ready to spring upon it. On one oc- 

 casion whilst out looking for sambur, I saw a stag out 

 feeding above a strip of jungle and noticed a tiger stealing 

 along below it. The deer began bellowing and moved up 



