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THE LIVING ANIMALS 
OF THE 
made a great row over their meal. All of 
a sudden they all flew up, and I made certain 
it was the tiger. Then my brother fired, and 
there he was, shot right through the brain, 
lying just above the buffalo. He had been 
brought down by the noise the crows were 
making. Upon driving the sholas (small 
woods on these hills), tigers were often put 
out. Sometimes they availed themselves of 
the drive to secure food for themselves. A 
wood was being driven, when a tremendous 
grunting was heard, arid out rushed an old 
boar, bristling and savage. B was about 
to raise his rifle, when a growl like thunder 
stopped him, and a great tiger with one spring 
cleared the nullah, and alighted on the back 
of the old boar. Such a battle then took 
place that, what with the growls of the tiger 
and the squeals of the boar, one might believe 
oneself in another world. I thought of nothing 
but of how to kill one or the other, or both; 
so, as they were rolling down over and over, 
about fifty yards from me on the open hill- 
side, I let fly both barrels. For a second or 
two the noise went on; then the tiger jumped 
off, and the boar struggled into the nullah 
close by. The tiger pulled up, and coolly 
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By permission of Herr Carl Hagenbeck] 
A LEOPARD-PUMA HYBRID 
This is a photograph from life of a very rare hybrid. The amimal’s 
father was a puma, its mother a leopard. It is now dead, and may be 
seen stuffed in Mr. Rothschild’ s Museum at Tring 
stared at us without moving; but his courage seemec to fail him, and he sprang into the 
nullah and disappeared.” 
In most parts of India tigers are now scarce and shy, except in the preserves of the great 
rajas, and the dominions of some mighty and pious Hindu potentates, such as the Maharaja of 
Jeypur, who, being supposed to be descended from a Hindu god, allows no wild animals to be 
killed. There the deer and pig are so numerous that tigers are welcome to keep them 
Photo by L. Medland, F.Z.8.] 
LEOPARDS 
A pair of leopards, one spotted, the other black. Black leopards may be the 
offspring of the ordinary spotted form ; they are generally much more savage 
[North Finchley 
down. But the Sunderbunds, unwhole- 
some islands at the Ganges mouth, still 
swarm with them. So does the Malay 
Peninsula. 
Mr. J. D. Cobbold shot a tiger in 
Central Asia in a swamp so deep in snow 
and so deadly cold that he dared not 
stay for fear of being frozen to death. 
Tigers sometimes wander as far west as the 
Caucasus near the Caspian. The farther 
north, the larger your tiger, is the rule. 
The biggest ever seen in Europe was. 
a Siberian tiger owned by Herr Carl 
Hagenbeck, of Hamburg, and the largest. 
known skin and skull is from the Far 
North. The skin is 13 feet 6 inches from 
the nose to the end of the tail. The 
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