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The Living Animals of the World 



By permission of Herr Carl Hagenbeck] 



A LEOI'ARD-rUMA HYBRID. 



[IJunLt/urg. 



soon counted fifty ; but they would not go 



near the buffalo. Then some crows, bolder 



than the rest, flew down, and 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 l)rain, lying 



just above the buffalo. He had been brought 



down by the noise the crows were making. 



Upon driving the sJiolas (small woods on 



these hills), tigers were often put out. Some- 

 times they availed themselves of the drive 



to secure food for themselves. A wood was 



being driven, when a tremendous grunting 



was heard, and 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 aliglited on the back 



of the old boar. Such a battle then took 



place that, what with tlie growls of tlie tiger 



and the squeals of the boar, one might believe 



oneself in another world. 1 thought of nothing 



but of how to kill one or the other, or both ; 



so, as they were rolling down o\er and over, 



about fifty j'ards from me on the open hill- 

 side, 1 let fly both barrels. J'"or a second or 



two the noise went on; then the tiger jumjied 



off, and the boar struggled into the nullah 



close by. The tiger pulled up, and coolly 



stared at us without moving ; but his courage seemed to fail him, and he sprang into the 



nullah and disajiijearcd." 



In most parts of India tigers are now scarce and shy, exce})t in the preserves of the 



great rajas, and the dominions of some mighty and pious Hindu potentates, such as the 



Maharaja of .Teypur, who, being su23posed to be descended from a Hindu god, allows no wild 



animals to he killed. There the deer and 

 pig are so numerous that tigers are welcome 

 to keep) them down. But the Sunderbunds, 

 unwholesome islands at the Ganges mouth, 

 still swarm with them. So does the ]\Ialay 

 I'eninsula. 



]Mr. J. D. Cobbold shot a tiger m 

 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 Ca.spian. The farther 



i^^' north, the larger your tiger, is the rule. 



The biggest ever seen in Europe was 



pkoiohjL.urJian,i.F.z.s.i^ iKoru. Finchtey. ^ Siberian tiger owucd by Herr Carl 



, . ,, , „ J 'u . '^ Hagenbeck, of Hamburg, and the largest 



A pair of leol-ards, one slioUed, the otliCr black. Black leoiaidE may be the , . i l ii ■ ■ 



olTspringof the Old inarj 8] lotted foini ; thej- are generally much more savage kuOWU sklU and skull is frOm the ]"ar 



Thiii ia a photograph from life of a vei"y rare hybrid. 'I'l.e auiniaU' 

 falher was a luinia, its mother a leopard. It ia now de.ad, and may li-. 

 seni stull'c-il in Mr. Kothschild s Museum at 'Iring. 



