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chirp of a squirrel or cluck of a lizard, sounds well known 

 in the jungle, and which are easily learned. When copied 

 for a short time, this jungle demeanour becomes habitual, 

 and ceases to be irksome. If any of your followers show 

 the least disposition to cough when waiting for game- 

 send them away forthwith. It is caused by fear, and 

 will certainly break out afresh if the animal appears. On 

 four occasions I lost shots by the coughing of my 

 shikari before my experience w^as gained. On another 

 occasion, a tiger was walking down a nullah straight 

 towards a friend, who was posted on my right. His 

 shikari began to funk and coughed, whereupon the tiger 

 turned back, and, emerging within ten yards of me, was 

 killed by a single spherical bullet from my rifle. After 

 shooting a tiger, the body should not be permitted to 

 lie upon hot stones or rocky ground, as the hair will subse- 

 quently fall off the skin at every point where it has been 

 thus touched ; nor is it wise to sit on the body of a dead 

 tiger, for as it cools the ticks leave it, and will settle on the 

 nearest living substitute. The pugs of a tiger are larger 

 and rounder than those of a tigress, which are oval in 

 shape, and not much larger than a bor batcha's, from 

 which, indeed, they are not easily distinguishable. The 

 tigress has seldom more than three cubs at a birth, of 

 which but two, as a rule, survive the first year. She then 

 teaches them how to kill their pre} r , and they remain with 

 her till they are two years old, being then generally sent off 

 to shift for themselves. Occasionally a family party of 

 tigers will be found in some favoured locality, whose 

 younger members will be four years old at least, and will 

 have been killing for themselves for more than two years. 

 With good luck and proper management four, or even five, 

 tigers may then be shot in one day. 



