CHAPTER IV. 

 THE PANTHEK (Felis pardus). 



Distribution of Varieties of Black panther at Santawerry 

 Panthers at Secunderabad Sentries and panthers 

 Bolting panthers with dogs The Gun Rock Mowl Ali 

 Porcupines and dogs Spearing panthers Dangers of 

 Death of Colonel Nightingale Sitting up for panthers 

 Shooting pits Kill two panthers Am charged by one 

 Shoot a rogue panther Catch cheetah cub Tame panthers 

 Treachery of Climbing capabilities of Garas by. 



IN whatever part of Southern India the sportsmen may 

 happen to be located, he will be certain before long, to 

 encounter this formidable animal, which is far more 

 widely distributed than the tiger, and which adapts itself 

 more easily to the surroundings, whether they be in the 

 middle of agricultural districts, and devoid of any jungle 

 or other desirable stronghold, or in remote and secluded 

 forest tracts, far from the haunts of men. 



Four varieties of this animal are found in Southern 

 India, viz. : the panther proper, a large, active, and 

 aggressive animal, known to the native as the bor butcha, 

 or taindwa; the leopard or cheetah, a smaller variety of 

 the above ; the bunting leopard, smaller still, with the 

 bead and body of a cat and the legs of a greyhound ; the 

 black panther, a beautiful variety, approaching the bor 

 butcha in size. The word " cheetah " is applied generally 

 to the first three of the above animals, but it is misleading, 



