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■we advanced and found him dead within 10 yards. He measured 6'-6" between 

 pegs, being 3'- 10" to root of tail. 



This panther's behaviour ilhistrates well wliat Mr. Brook Fox wi'ote in the 

 December 1920 issue and which I should like to quote " When a panther re- 

 ceives a Avound, mortal or otherwise, he invariably makes a mad rush for the 

 nearest heavy cover. It is astonisliing how their instinct leads them to the most 

 difficult and inaccessible cover in the vicinity". Panthers in South India go 

 up trees commonl}^ as in beats, or for the purpose of dropping on sambhur, 

 chital, etc. (there was an instance of this in the same forest this year) but I 

 have not previously heard of a panther escaping (from pigs in this case) up a 

 tree and taking its prey Avith it, though there was nothing very strange about 

 it, the pig being quite a little one. 



CoiMBATORE, J. H. LONGRIGG, i.f.s. 



Ith March 1921. 



v.— MEASUREMENTS OP TIGERS AND PANTHERS. 



Reference Editorial note, page .394 of the Journal of the Society, Vol. XXVII, 

 No. 2, on the measurement of tigers. I have bean through my shikar book of 

 the past 28 years and it is very regrettable that on so manj?- occasions no measure- 

 ments were recorded. I have however extracted the folloAdng, all made myself 

 on the spot immediately^ after the animal had been killed. They may or may 

 jiot be of any value. 



TIGERS. 



stumpy 



PANTHERS. . 



1 8'-0" 7'-10" .. .. biggest shot; an im- 



mense panther. 



2 7'-8" 7'-2" .. .. very heavy. 



3 6'-9" . . . . . . female. 



4 6'-6" 



All the above wore shot in Central India where the tigers are as a rule thick 

 - — set, heavv animals with short tails. 



STEWART CAPPER, 

 Gtjna Cantonment, Lt.-Golonel. 



28th Januanj 1921. 



