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the Tiger came up to him, smelt about him, and then 

 rubbed himself against the man, and afterwards left him 

 untouched. 



Tigers are said to begin eating their prey at the hind 

 quarters. Tigers will at times eat fish, frogs and 

 carrion. 



One thousand four hundred and sixty-four Tigers were 

 killed in British India in 1886. 



The value of a good Bengal Tiger skin is about £4 to 

 £6 ; and the value of a Tiger-claw is from 9d. to 5s. : 

 these are mounted for pins by jewellers. The Bengal 

 Tiger rarely exceeds 11 feet. 



One thousand and sixty-three human beings were 

 killed by Tigers in India in 1888. 



Albinos, or White Tigers, are extremely scarce and 

 are very beautiful ; the stripes are generally light brown, 

 but we have seen a white skin with dark drab stripes. 

 There has recently been an extraordinary number of 

 Tigers in Java ; in 1846 a black, or very dark brown, 

 Tiger is said to have been seen at Tipperah, near 

 Chittagong. 



The Mongolian or Chinese Tiger. — This woolly 

 variety of the Tiger has the fur or pelage of great 

 richness, and has consequently been classed as a different 

 species by some naturalists. Very little seems to be 

 known of it in Science, although it is well known in 

 Commerce. 



The fur of this animal, as before said, is very thick, 

 and is often ] ^ to 2 inches in length, and on the belly 

 it is much longer (several inches), like a Lynx. 



The general colour is paler than the Bengal animal, 

 and it is of a less ferocious disposition. 



The stripes are scarcely so black as in the Bengal 



