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tie up a goat to a stake rammed firmly in the ground was a matter of an hour 

 at the most, and by 3 p.m. I was seated in the machan, but this time without 

 a shikari. 



" About 4 p.m., something gray moved in a half right direction from the 

 machan, and on closer observation I made out the form of a very large panther 

 lying with his head on his paws watching the goat ; but so exactly did the 

 colour of the skin match the ground that had it not been for the slight 

 movement of the tail I should never have noticed him. After a few minutes 

 he bounded towards the goat, which ran round the stake, followed by the 

 panther, which made a blow with his paw, missing the goat. On this he im- 

 mediately bounded back to his point of vantage, and after a few minutes 

 made another dash at the goat. This time business, not play, was meant, and 

 almost simultaneously with his seizure of the goat was the report of the 

 Paradox. 



" On returning to the tree the goat seemed none the worse from the experi- 

 ence, having only two wounds, one on the top and one underneath the neck. 

 This on return to camp* we found was due to the fact that most of the 

 panther's teeth, both in the upper and in the lower jaw, were missing. Un- 

 fortunately, the tape measure had been forgotten, so there was no possibility of 

 taking any reliable measurements. The panther was, however, exceptionally 

 large and powerful, as was to be expected from his having dragged the ohital 

 up a tree with a straight and bare trunk, and from the reports we had 

 received of the size and strength of the celebrated wadi-wallah." 



Have any of our members come across a similar occurrence ? 



E. COMBER. 



22wd March 1906. 



No. V.— TIGERS HAMSTRINGING THEIR PREY BEFORE 



KILLING. 



Reading Mr. Allan's letter in Yol. XVI, No. 3, 1 thought an experience I had 

 might be of interest. 



In December 1904 I was down the Tennaserim River in Burma on a shooting 

 trip. I had been out on the previous day and noticed tracks of buffalo. The 

 next day when I was out, after going some distance, we heard a tremendous 

 bellowing. On working up to the spot, which was in thick jungle, we saw a 

 tiger had tackled a large cow buffalo, he was then hanging on to her hind 

 quarters, the buffalo dragging herself along slowly. I got an easy shot at the 

 tiger and killed him. After finishing off the buffalo I noticed that both the 

 hind legs were hamstrung, the tendons beeng completely severed. 



P. HUDSON, 



The King's Regiment. 

 Nasibabad, Rajputana, 

 %bih March 1906, 



