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tigers appear to have idiosyncracies and characters of their own, and I have 

 seen the great cats kill both by seizure of the throat and of the back of the 

 nsck. I have never come across a kill on which the marks of the canine teeth 

 were absent, so have known of no instance of the prey being destroyed by 

 a blow of the paw. I recollect, however, seeing a large brass dish, carried by 

 a beater on his back, perforated in three or four places by the blow of a 

 tiger's paw ; in this case the tiger did not use his teeth, and the man was not 

 injured beyond bruises incidental to the blow and fall. I much regret not 

 to have examined the hundreds of " kills " I have seen, to ascertain whether 

 the neck was broken or not. On one occasion I shot a blue bull in a very 

 emaciated condition with the marks of a tiger's claws on his back, causing 

 suppurating wounds. I agree with Mr. Dunbar Brander that the tiger (and 

 also the panther) has no very acute sense of smell, but I doubt his having very 

 keen sight. He appears to be quick to catch sight of a moving object at a 

 short distance, but I have known tigers look at me for some time with unsee- 

 ing eyes, so long as I remained motionless, and this within a distance of 

 twenty or thirty yards. Their quick sense of hearing is undoubted. 



There are many recorded cases of cannibalism in tigers. One instance 

 came under my own observation in 1895, when out on a shooting expedition in 

 the Nizam's Dominions. I was after a tiger for some days, whose tracks were 

 easily distinguishable owing to his having suffered an injury in one of the hind 

 legs, causing the " pug " to assume a plantigrade shape. One day I broke open 

 the dry dropping of this tiger, and found it to be composed of tiger's hair, 

 whilst embedded in it was a perfect claw. The late Mr. James Douglas of 

 Bombay told me he had found an exactly similar object at Mahableshwar 

 some forty years ago. I never shot the tiger with the injured foot or leg, 

 which had presumably been caused in an encounter with another of his species 

 whom he had devoured. 



Captain Watson mentions a pack of 11 wolves seen in Persia in August. 

 The European wolf, which is the same species, forms into large packs, 

 generally in winter, and I have seen a pack of 25 or 30 in Russia in a hard 

 winter. 



There was a pack of Indian wolves which took to man-eating some 18 years 

 ago in the Hoshangabad district, but I forget of how many it was composed. 

 Generally in India these animals seem to be in pairs, and I have seen no more 

 than five together, but a friend of mine saw a large pack of fifteen or more at 

 Jalna, and relates that they did not exhibit any fear of him, although he 

 passed quite close to them. 



I have just seen the skin of a wolf shot here in Baluchistan, which does not 

 appear to differ in any way from Canis pallipes, the Indian species, although 

 I understand only Canis lupus is found in this country. 



R. G-. BURTON, Major, 



94th Russell's Infantry. 

 Fort Sandeman, December 12th, 1906. 



