CHAPTER V 



the tiger (felis Tigris) (Burmese, ' Kya ' : pro- 

 nounced ' Chd '). THE PANTHER OR LEOPARD 



(felis pardus) (Burmese, ' Thit ') 



Both these animals are so well known, and their 

 habits and general appearance have been so 

 often described in print, that I do not propose 

 to weary the reader with an unnecessary des- 

 cription of either, more especially since neither 

 in appearance nor habits do they differ in any 

 degree from their congeners in India. The 

 only difference in habit that I have ever heard 

 of is that the tiger in Burma is said occasionally 

 to take a dog if tied up as a bait, exactly as a 

 panther does. But this is mere hearsay. I 

 have never known an instance of a tiger killing 

 a dog for food, whether as a bait or otherwise, 

 and should doubt his doing so. Possibly, in 

 reported cases of the kind, the tracks of a large 

 panther have been mistaken for those of a tiger. 

 I do, however, know of an authenticated case 

 in which a tiger in Burma attacked a full-grown 

 tame elephant. The unfortunate r beast, a female 



