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The bullet was found by Colonel Hills still in the animal. This 
tiger had one foot smaller than the others, and so his tracks could 
always be easily identified, He was an adult tiger when hit with the 
Enfield bullet, and so must, at any rate, have been 19 or 20 years old 
when shot by Colonel Hills. What is the weight of a tiger I have 
no personal knowledge. Some years ago, in The Field, the weight 
of a 9 feet 8 inches tiger was given as 355 lbs., and of a 9 feet 
for a tiger and about 17 stone for the lady. Mr. Sanderson, in his 
delightful and accurate book “Thirteen Years among the Wild 
Beasts of India,” says a very bulky well-fed male weighed by him 
was 8493 lbs. Captain Forsyth, in his ‘‘ Highlands of Central 
India,” one of the best written books about Indian sport, says that 
the ordinary tiger weighs 450 or 500 lbs., and that one he shot 
must have touched 700 lbs. at least. This animal, however, was not 
weighed. I believe that the majority of tigers are under 850 lbs. 
I judge, however, entirely from comparison with other animals, such 
as deer, the approximate weight of which is known to me. It is 
well known that a tigress teaches her cubs to kill by disabling the 
animal attacked, so that 1b cannot escape from the onslaughts of the 
cubs. ‘Two years ago, I came on an instance of this where the kill 
was an old bull nilghai, who had been wending his way down a 
shallow nullah to a water hole. ‘The tigress had been lying in wait 
about twenty yards from the water behind the stump of a dead tree ; 
there was no cover where she lay; her seat was easily seen in the 
sandy soil. She had two cubs, about ten months old, with her, but 
there were no signs of their having lain near her, so, I presume, 
they were hiddenin the jungle until the proper time came. The nil- 
ghai had passed within three yards of the tigress, who had rushed 
out and seized him by the right foreleg just below the shoulder, 
breaking the bone. The cubs then, I think, had joined in and 
killed by tearing at the flanks and disembowelling the poor brute. 
I was out stalking and came on the spot by chance, about 9 a. m. 
Both hind quarters of the nilghai had beon completely eaten. ‘There 
were no marks on the neck or forequarters except the one grip of 
the tigress on the right leg. It had been eaten on the spot where 
it was killed. I took a photograph of the nilghai. You will 
see there is no mark on the throat, the usual place of seizing. 
The face of the animal has also a peculiar painful expression, which 
one uever sees on an ordinary kill, The branch of a tree that you 
tigress as 235 lbs., from actual weighments, which is about 25 stone . 
