1147 

 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



No. I.— VITALITY OF A WOUNDED TIGER. 



In March 1888 I was out in the banks of the Kosi where it leaves Nepal". 

 On the 19th March I fired at a tiger as he disappeared into the jungle and 

 hit him over the left kidney, he could not be followed that evening as it 

 was almost dark. On the 21st he was put up and fired at. On the 24th 

 he was seen, also on the 28th. On the 30th he was put up and killed by a 

 bullet through the skull. One of the party got off his elephant and on to the 

 pad elephant to help in putting up the dead tiger. He was not long at 

 work when he was seen to leap off wildly and begin vomiting and remarked 

 that the stench from a wound in the tiger's back was awful and that it was 

 the tiger I had wounded a week ago. A post mortem was made — my 

 bullet had struck the spine just above the left kidney, breaking up the 

 kidney, part of the liver, the whole of the left lung and the pericardial sac 

 was filled with blood, the side of the spine was deeply scraped for about 

 3 inches and the last rib broken. 



W. FORSYTH. 



Pen Ithon Hall, Newtown, N. Wales, 

 4th January 1911. 



