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away to some thick jungle which lay two koss towards the 

 east, and was beyond our sphere of operations that day. 

 The second tiger was lying up close at hand in the 

 small hill already described. Orders were issued to post 

 the guns at a greater distance from the hill than hereto- 

 fore, and the beaters were to commence further off from 

 its base. The two colonels were in trees about fifty yards 

 behind their former positions, I acting as " long stop " 

 about seventy yards in rear. The tiger soon appeared, 

 coming slowly down the face of the hill to within fifty 

 yards of Colonel B/ussell, but a stop which had been placed 

 in my original post, causing him to turn to the left, he pre- 

 sently emerged at a gallop between the two colonels, who 

 fired simultaneously, and he rolled over and expired in a few 

 seconds. He was a good average specimen of a short-tailed 

 tiger, measuring as follows: Eound fore-arm, 17f inches ; 

 length from nose to tail between uprights, 8 feet 2 inches ; 

 length of tail, 31^ inches.* We stayed two days longer at 

 Eajavole without a kill, and then marched to Mankote, 

 having a scuffle with bears on the way, which we found 

 already in possession of a rocky hill we had intended to 

 ambuscade at break of day. We encamped in a mango tope 

 full of interesting birds, including several orioles and 

 specimens of the white and chesnut paradise fly-catchers. 

 Here, too, we laid in a supply of good drinking water, 

 which was bottled off in view of possible contingencies 

 elsewhere, the water in the district ahead being reported 

 scarce and bad. Bears were numerous, and we had some 

 fun with them, but, there being no news of tigers, we 

 marched for the Pakhal Lake, by Penconda and Yella- 

 gooda, through a country affording bears and panthers, 



* With, a tail of ordinary length, he would have been more 

 than nine feet long. 



