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mencing always at the tail” (of. Condition V). Looking at some 
of the other authorities to hand, and comparing them, I find that— 
(a) Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Cumming (“Wild Men and 
Wild Beasts”) agrees that a tiger “always commences 
to feed near the hind quarter.” 
(b) “Hawkeye,” in the South of India Observer, 1868, maintains 
that a tiger “invariably commences at the hind quarters 
of the animal slain,” anda panther “at the fore quarters 
or chest.” He favours the idea that the paw is used to 
strike down the prey, and that tigers must have room 
to spring. : 
(c) Blanford in his “ Fauna of British India” says it is “ cer- 
tainly incorrect to suppose that cattle are killed by tigers 
with a blow of the paw, though he thinks smaller animals 
may be. He sides with Baldwin in thinking that the 
neck of the victim is invariably broken, and that the great 
blood-vessels of the neck are untouched. He says he has 
known instances of buffaloes being ham-strung by tigers, 
and admits that they are in the habit of dragging their 
‘kills’ (Condition II), and that claw-marks are confined 
to scratches on the fore quarters” (Condition X). 
(d) Sanderson, too, thinks that the neck is dislocated, but that 
this is brought about by the tiger seizing his victim’s 
throat, and thrusting the neck upwards and backwards. 
He agrees to the hiding of the carcase under leaves 
(Condition IV) and that the hind quarters are corsumed 
first (Condition V) ; but maintains that the intestines are 
ruptured, and denies that tigers spring on their prey— 
they “rush in.” 
(e) General Hamiltion (“ Record of Sport in Southern India,” 
p- 171) apparently favours the view that it is customary 
for tigers to strike their prey down with a blow of 
the paw. 
(f) In Colonel MacMaster’s “ Notes on Jerdon’s Mammals of 
India,” p. 199, we find an account of a tiger stalking 
a cow, which, “having seized her (where is not Hated 
sucked the blood.” | 
