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fetch my camera and was able to get the photo here reproduced after 

 cutting away the scrub round him. 



The length of the horns on the inside curve was o feet, distance from tip 

 to tip .'>4J inches, widest inside 37 inches, and girth of horn round base lo 

 inches. He was accompanied by a smaller bull as is so often the way with 

 tsaing, and this one bolted at the shot giving me a glimpse of him through 

 the jungle. There was great glee among the Burmans of course at such a 

 line haul of meat, and I was much amused at hearing a calculation being- 

 made of the number of cart yoke straps his hide would yield. Burmese 

 cartmen usually fasten the yokes of bullockcarts to the holes by thongs. 

 A long and gory procession descended from the ridge to the camp during 

 the afternoon bearing blocksand strings of meat of all kinds and shapes 

 and pemraican manufacture was soon in full swing. 



DehkaDux, November U)ll. A. ItODGERS. 



No. VII.— THE COLOURATION OF TIGERS. 



When shooting last hot weather in the Central Provinces, I bagged two 

 tigers at places quite 20 miles apart, and the difference in their colour was- 

 very marked. The first whose colour was very dark had a reputation for 



