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eveiaiiig. The brother came and told the patel in the evening. Next 

 morning a search was made and the corpse found partly eaten, with the 

 pugs of a tiger all roimd it. A portion below the waist was eaten, claw- 

 marks on left shoulder ; neck bitten and throat torn open. The tiger 

 was said to be probably a striped tiger,—" Patait vag." It was on a hill 

 near this that the tigress herself was eventnally slain. Mr. Hudson tells 

 me that the jungle inhabited by the tigress was a large mixed jungle, 

 evergreen in places and in some parts open with teak trees and long- 

 grass and " karvi " — an ideal tiger country—with immense blocks of 

 " coupes " exploited ten years ago and strictly conserved since and con- 

 taining long ranges of rocky hills, rising in places to the height of 1,800 

 feet, with steep sides of sheer rock and water everj^where. The popula- 

 tion is sparse. On the 23rd January, 1895, Mr. Hudson, together with 

 Mr. Hodgson and Mr. Clements, organised a very extensive beat 

 witli 300 beaters. They had a fourth gun in Mr. Illava, Abkari 

 Insjiector. 



The tigress had killed a cow at midday and the beat took in a large 

 hill. Mr. Hudson was posted just below the ridge of the hill and Mr. 

 Hodgson and Mr. Clements were posted a mile from Mr. Hudson down 

 below him, whilst the fourth gun commanded the top of the ridge and 

 the other side of it. Shortly after the beat began the tigress gave three 

 or four low deep short grunts in the long distance, probably calling to her 

 cubs, and again an hour afterwards when she was much nearer the guns. 

 She followed the ridge till she came to within 60 yards of the fourth 

 gun, when she turned down to avoid an open space, grunting to her cubs 

 as she did so. She was preceded by two cubs but the third was behind 

 and made her anxious. She was now almost broadside on to Mr. Hud- 

 son, crossing in front and a little above him. As she turned her head to 

 encourage the lagging cub, Mr. Hudson fired and dropped her with 

 a bullet at the point of the shoulder, but as she still dragged herself on 

 Mr. Hudson fired again. She recovered herself and dragged herself 

 away and it took a few more bullets to settle her completely. The cubs 

 gave no trouble ; the shouts of the beaters behind them soon drove them 

 out. Efforts were made to catch one of them alive but it was a little 

 too big for that. The tigress measured 7 ft. 1 1 in. and was not full- 

 grown. Two of tho cubs measured 3 ft. 9 in. and one 3 ft. 10 in. Two 

 were females and one a male. 



