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I ascertained from some Bhils that they were about the size of Panthers, and 

 so thinking them too small to be shot at and too large to be caught alive, -we 

 determined to leave them alone, although a congregation of chattering monkeys 

 round some rocks, half way up the hill, showed very plainly where they were. 



On the 22nd instant, rather late in the afternoon, my Shikari sent in word that 

 he had marked down a Tiger in the very same place in which the Tigress had 

 been found. I started at once, as soon as I could collect men for a beat, and at 

 the first sound of music out came the Tiger straight away for the place where 

 I was posted, giving me an excellent shot, which I took advantage of, and the 

 whole thing was over before the beaters had any idea of it. My Shikari, 

 coming along with the beaters, when he reached the place where he had 

 marked the Tiger down, went to have a look at it, and in a sort of hollow 

 place under a rock close by, he came on a dead Tiger cub which had evidently 

 been killed that morning, for it was quite fresh, and of which the whole of the 

 right hind leg and quarter had been eaten. 



There was not a trace of a bit of it left anywhere ; the cub had evidently 

 been killed by the Tiger, for there were the marks of his fangs in the throat. 

 On looking about, my Shikari found, behind a rock, close by, the half-eaten 

 remains of a large goat, and we afterwards found the tracks of the cub drag- 

 ging the goat up the side of the hill to its hiding place. The theory is that the 

 cub returned to the hill pretty early in the morning, bringing the goat with 

 him, and whilst he was eating it the Tiger put in an appearance and a row 

 ensued which ended in the death of the cub. So far all is perfectly natural 

 until we come to the eating part of the business, which was certainly what 

 I had never heard of before. 



W. SCOTT, Colonel. 



Palanptje, 26th April, 1892. 



IV.— NOTES ON THE THAMIN. 



EuCERVUS ELDI {PanoUa eldi apud Jerdon), the Burmese or brow-antlered 

 deer, seems to be peculiar to Burma and the Malayan Peninsula, though how 

 far north it is found does not seem to be clearly known. It is called by 

 the Burmese— r/i«mm, the accent being on the last, and not as Jerdon says — 

 Te-min. 



The brow antlers of this deer are very long and project forwards, slightly in- 

 wards and downwards, the remainder of the horn curving scimitar-like outwards. 

 In a symmetrical pair a line along the horn from the point of the brow-antler 

 to the tip of the termin at snags will be almost the arc of a circle. Most 

 heads have one line on the brow-antler and two or three on the top; an average 

 head has 10 points, but 12 points are not uncommon; there is a fine head in 

 the R. A. Mess, here, which has 14 points. The length of the horns measured 

 round the curve is, in an average head, 29 inches, greatest span 34 iijches. 



