THE TIGER. 1-5 



A tiger, in good health, having the hair thick, fine, and shining, the colour bright-tawny yellow, 

 shaded into pure white ou the under parts, and beautifully marked with dark bands and brindlings, 

 exhibits a distribution of colour not only pleasing, but beautiful. These markings vary in number and 



I 





THE BENGAL TIGER. 



intensity of ihade in the young, and in females; and very young tigers are of a gray colour, with obscure 

 dusky transverse bands. 



The range of the tiger is entirely Asiatic. It is not, however, confined to the hot plains of India. 

 At eei-iiiin seaaona it, is found at a high altitude in the Himalaya, and it also occurs for to the eastward 

 in China. Of these regions travellers have said : 



