BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
returns to his kill the next night as soon as itis quite dark. He then 
finishes what is left if the killis an ordinary bullock or deer. He 
never eats at the place he ate the night before, but drags it forty 
or fifty yards before beginning operations. If you sit up over a kil] 
it is necessary to tie it by the fore leg to a tree, otherwise the tiger 
will walk off with it as soon as he arrives. This occurred to me 
sitting over a natural kill of a boar. The tiger picked it up and 
walked off without stopping a second. If you tie it, the tiger does 
not seem to mind, but will stop andeat. He takes about two hours 
steady cating to finish the forequarters of abullock. I timed a small 
tigress two years ago. She came and ate for ten minutes and then 
went away for twenty minutes, I think to havea drink. She returned 
and ate without stopping for two-and-a-quarter hours. Just as the 
moon was getting up, she finished, and walked quietly off. Though 
J was within ten yards, the whole time up in a tree, I could not see 
at all, so did not fire. Jt is no use firing a random shot on these 
occasions. You probably only wound or miss, altogether frightening 
the animal out of the country. A little self-control and patience will , 
give you a better chance another day. This particular tigress I 
turned out in a beat next day, but did not get a shot. 
Tigers on occasions are cannibals. The male is said by the 
natives, probably with truth, to kill and eat the cubs. Mr, Mulock 
once fired at a tiger, and shortly afterwards fired at what he sup- 
posed to be the same tiger. He killed them both, but thought he 
had only killed one; and so one was left dead in the jungle. A 
third tiger came during the night aad had dinner off it. This tiger 
also returned the next night, and had another meal. I havea photo. 
here of the tiger so eaten, I have read of other instances of tigers 
eating the dead carcase of one of their own kind, but have not seen 
any such instance myself. They will also eat the dead carcase of an 
animal they have not themselves killed. Mr. Raitt, of the Bombay 
Uncovenanted Service, was killed by a tiger that the evening before 
had fed on the body of a bear that Raitt had shot. Tigers are sup- 
posed to kill once in five or six days, and this; no doubt, is generally 
the case, as a tiger does not trouble himself to hunt much for a few 
days after a heavy feed; but if they get the chance, they will kill 
whenever they can. A tigress I was after last year killed, on three 
consecutive nights in different places, never returning to the kill. 
Some years ago a tigress killed on fourteen consecutive nights. She 
returned to the same place every night, and found a fresh bullock 
