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He also had marks in neck and hindquarters of encounters with tigers,, 

 evidently before he was full grown. A great trophy though not with 

 as long horns as I hoped for. Measurement of Buffalo as below : — 

 Total length from nose to tip of tail 



Body 



TaU 



Height 



Length of horn on outside curve 

 Circumference . . 



Tip to Tip 



Widest inside . . 

 Widest outside 



Across skull excluding horns . . 

 Both horns across skuU round outside curve 

 The record horn taking the length of horn on the outside curve is according; 

 to Rowland Ward (latest edition) 77|". 



The largest head in the Society's collection has horns measuring 54J" and 54" 

 and is 125" on the outside sweep. 



The association of Wild Bull Buffaloes with domestic herds has often been' 

 commented on by sportsmen. 



On the same day the party moved off to Bankulwa where the following 

 morning khuber of tiger was received from no less than 5 places. His- 

 Highness writes : — 



" Two tigers ringed in but one got out before I got there. First sight 

 I had was of a big tiger in mid air above grass jumping, I should say a good 

 9 feet from the ground, at the head of a huge tusker, Shamsher Prasad, 

 which he scratched in forehead. Shortly on my moving our elephant round,, 

 he charged out straight at Hiru and me but my elephant moved backward 

 some three yards and I had very unsteady and unsatisfactory first two 

 shots. Hiru fired after I had wounded him and knocked him over tern- 

 porarily, and the tiger went a little further riddled with my bullets and 

 Hiru's shot, and died. Fine 10 ft. 1 in. tiger — the longest body tiger 

 (7 ft.) — that I have shot or seen shot. Searched and made two rings 

 for the second tiger but in vain. My elephant when making second ring 

 nearly threw me out of howdah by kneeling and attempting to tusk a 

 hogdeer breaking past him." 

 The 22nd brought no further addition to the Game record beyond 2 Mug- 

 gers shot in a stream running by the Camp. 



" The first one on being cut open had thirty-six eggs and a small tortoise 



inside it and the second one forty-five eggs and sixteen small roimd stones!" 



On the 23rd His Highness had the good fortune to bag another 10 ft. 1 in. 



tiger. The animal had a huge head 3 ft. 1 in. and stood 3 ft. 5 J inches in height. 



" The second biggest measurement in my Game log, my last tiger in Nepal 



shot on the 20th May 1918, standing 3 ft. 8 inches in height." 



In describing the shooting of this tiger His Highness writes : — 



" He looked an awfully fine sight galloping, head and tail raised, through 

 the grass in the dusk." 

 On the 24th the shooting camp was shifted to a place called Hindalwa, 

 where on Wednesday, the 31st March, the Maharaja shot what is described^ 

 as the record tigress. His Highness describes the incident as foUows : — 



"Another red-letter day. Four tigers reported for some days right 

 beyond the Kosi. They however before daylight went up a long low hUl' 

 just above. So sent elephants out at night and put a line between the 

 grass and the hill early this morning. Khuber brought here at 8 a.m. of 

 one big tiger and two others seen, though a fourth was alsa expected to- 



