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down by greyhounds, but gives at excelleut run with fox hounds. They 

 are very tenacious of life, and sham dead in a way to deceive even an 

 experienced sportsman. I have seen one after being worried by a pack 

 of hounds, and getting a good rap or two on its head with a heavy whip, 

 limp off some time afterwards when unobserved, with apparently a good 

 chance of affording another run on a future day. I have known a jackal 

 come to the aid of his comrade (or mate perhaps) when seized by grey- 

 hounds, and attack them furiously, whilst 1 was close by on horseback. 

 The call of the jackal is famUiar to all residents in India, and is certainly 

 the most unearthly and startling music. The natives assert that they cry 

 after every watch of the night. Jackals not unfrequently get hydrophobia, 

 especially in Bengal, and I have known several fatal cases from their 

 bite. 



Connected with the old name of the " lion's provider" are the generally 

 credited tales about one always attending the tiger. Mr. Elliot says,' 

 " native sportsmen universally believe that an old jackal, which (in the 

 South of India) they call ' BhdM, ' is in constant attendance on the tiger, 

 and whenever his cry is heard, which is peculiar and different from that of 

 the jackal generally, the vicinity of a tiger is confidently pronounced. I 

 have heard the cry attributed to the Bhdlu, frequently." The " Kole 

 bhaloo''^ is frequently referred to by Lieutenant Eice, in his very interesting 

 work on " Tiger Shooting in Eajpootana," as having been frequently heard- 

 and seen by him in company with the tiger. In Bengal the same jackal 

 is called " FMall," or Phao, or Pheeow, or Plinew, from its call, and in 

 some parts Ghog^ though that name is said by some to refer to some 

 other (fabulous) animal. " It is," says Johnson, in his Field Sports of 

 India, as quoted in the India Sporting Eeview, N. S. Vol. I, " a jackal fol- 

 lowing the scent of the tiger and making a noise very different from their 

 usuaj cry, which I imagine they do for the pm-pose of warning their 

 species of danger. " Agaiin, " soon after the tiger passed within a few 

 yards of us. In a minute or two after he had passed, we plainly saw the 

 jackal, and heard him cry when very near us. I have often heard it said 

 that the Pheall (or provider, as it is sometimes called), always goes 

 before the tiger, but in this instance he followed him, which I have also 

 seen him do at other times. Whether he is induced to follow the tiger for 

 the sake of coming in for part of the booty, or whether merely follows as 

 small birds often follow a bird of prey, I cannot say. Evidently his cry 

 is different' from 'what it is at other times, which indicates danger being : 



