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his friend hearing the shot came running up and seeing the 
tiger lying on Outram was about to fire when Outram called 
out don't fire, he's dead, come and pull him off me/' and 
strange to say he escaped without a scratch. The bullet 
fortunately had struck the tiger at the junction of the head 
and neckj severing the spine, killing it instantaneously. 
Two tigers will often hunt in concert, generally in 
couples. I have often watched them acting thus when ap- 
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proaching a herd of deer. A brother officer told me that 
he saw a tiger drive a deer up to some rocks where another 
one was crouching ready to spring upon it. On one oc- 
casion whilst out looking for sambur, I saw a stag out 
feeding above a strip of jungle and noticed a tiger stealing 
along below it. The deer began bellowing and moved up 
