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like the bull bison and bull buffalo if attacked at all, are, | think, in 
the first instance, attacked from the rear with a view to disable them. 
A few years ago I shot a very large solitary bull buffalo that had 
been attacked by a tiger in this way a short time before. The tiger 
had leapt on his quarters, fixing his claws on both sides of the root 
of the tail, and also fastening on with his teeth. ‘here were long 
cuts down both hind legs made with the claws. The wounds were 
healing well, and the buffalo was none the worse. Having killed, the 
tiger invariably according to my experience (though some writers 
say he occasionally begins elsewhere), begins eating at the hind 
quarter. Why he should do so I don’t know. He polishes off one 
hind quarter, and generally both. Sometimes he leaves the stomach 
and intestines in statu quo. Sometimes he will remove the stomach 
and make a neat parcel of it a little on one side. If a tiger and a 
tigress are together when they kill, they finish an ordinary-sized 
animal at one meal, leaving only the head. In such a case, 
I fancy the second one cats at the fore quarter. I have a photo- 
graph here of a bullock killed and partly eaten by two-pan- 
thers. One, you see, has eaten at the hind, and the other at the 
fore quarters ; and it is probable that tigers would do thesame. On 
the other hand, the tigress and cubs, I told you of, all ate at the hind 
quarters of the nilghai. Here is a photograph of a wild buffalo ealf, 
killed and partly eaten by a tiger; also one cf a larger but tame 
buffalo similarly treated. 
These will give you a good idea of the appearance of the dinner 
after the tiger’s first meal. The latter photo. also clearly shows 
the tiger’s grip on the throat when killing. With the exception of 
_the nilghai previously mentioned, I have never seen an animal eaten 
where it was killed. It is always dragged a short distance, ‘and 
sometimes for a considerable way, before the eating begins. It is 
dragged, not lifted clear offthe ground. Having gorged himself, 
he sometimes lies up close to the kill, but as often as not, especially 
in the hot weather, if there are hills anywhere about, he will goa 
long distance from the kill before he lies up for the day. I think 
ia the hot weather he prefers to get into 
a hill side under some shady tree 
the reason is that 
some cave, or to lie out high up on 
where he gets the breeze, rather 
phere of low jungle. Atany rate, LT have frequently found them pass 
through very likely looking heavy jungle near the kill, and proceed 
long distances to hills before lying up. As @ general rule, the tiger . 
than stop in the close hot atmos- 
