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edge, then slate-colour, gradually striping to yellow on the inner; 

 bristles light yellow, almost buff. Eemarks :— Extremely thin 

 and elongated, looking aj^pareutly emaciated. 



Sibbald's Eorqual.— Colour of body, upper side dark slate- 

 blue ; no white about the body, the under side being merely a 

 shade lighter in colour than the upper. Flippers longer than 

 Common Eorqual 's, light slate-blue outer side, and white on the 

 inner side. Baleen rather broader than Common Eorqual's ; 

 coal-black, including the bristles. Eemarks :— Elongated, but 

 still robust, compared with the Common Eorqual. 



EuDOLPHi's EoEQUAL. — Colour of body, [Upper part black, 

 under side white.— Southwell] . Flippers, outer side black, under 

 side white ; more pointed than the Common Eorqual's. Baleen 

 black, the bristles white. Eemarks :— Dorsal fin rather higher 

 and more curved and pointed than the Common Eorqual's. 



Lesser Eorqual.— Colour of body, [Upper part black, under 

 side white. Flippers black, with broad band of white across. 

 Baleen yellowish white. Eemarks :— Dorsal fin high.— South- 

 well] . 



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MAMMALIA. 



Photographing a Tiger.— A correspondent to a Madras paper writes 

 as follows :— " So far as I cau ascertain, a photograph of a Tiger in the act 

 of striking down a large animal was never taken until this week, when 

 I secured a negative of a Tiger killing a Buffalo. I had focussed on the 

 Buffalo, which was tied to the stump of a tree in the middle of a field, and 

 had just put a dry plate in the camera, when a Tiger came up aud struck 

 down the Buffalo with a single blow of his paw. My camera was not ten 

 yards from the Buffalo, aud the Tiger might just as well have come at me, 

 if he had chosen to do so, but fortunately he selected the Buffalo instead,' 

 and then I took advantage of my position and released the spring shutter 

 just as he had given the Buffalo his knock-down blow. The negative, I am 

 sorry to say, is not a good one, but it is nevertheless interesting, because it 

 throws some light on that vexed question, ' How does a Tiger kill his prey ?' 

 In the photograph, which I have before me as I write, the Tiger is seen 

 standing on his hind legs, which are bent ; his body is inclined to the ground 

 at an angle of about 45 deg.; his tail is straight, except the tip, which is 

 curled upwards ; and the right fore paw is seen above and the left below 

 the Buffalo's neck. The head of the Buffalo covers the shoulder and heart 



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