TIGERS AKD PUTRID FLESH. 
" ' That titters will cat what they do not kill 1 have had early 
* experience : — VVe left a stag which was shot late in the after- 
'noon, and on going to cut it up the following morning, we 
' found a tiger had dragged the carcass into a shala not very far 
* off, where the antlers of the stag got locked between the stems 
* of two trees, and the tiger was obliged to make his meal 
' there, which he did to the extent of the greater portion of 
' the haunches.' " 
"And in a letter contributed to the Sotiik of India 
Observer of November 26Eh, 1869, he says 
" ' Tigers are not particular as to the state of their food being 
* fresh or otherwise. It was observed in the — — that these 
'animals seldom—indeed never ^were found to resort to the 
* carcasses of the bisons that had been shot until the effluvia from 
' them was exceedingly strong, indeed, it may be said when in 
' the highest state of putrefaction ; and^ on one occasion, when 
* the tiger had dragged the putrefied carcass some distance, the 
'sportsman was able to follow it up to the spot by the scent, and 
' found the tiger quietly reposing close to the offensive remnants 
' of the bison, liut we know that whenever a tiger kills game or 
'cattle, if undisturbed, he returns to his prey nntil (with or with- 
*out the help of jackals or vultures), the whole is consumed, and 
* it must then be pretty high : In many cases it has been noticed 
* that he makes his lair conveniently near at hand to protect the 
' intrusion of any such assistants in the demolition of the carcass, 
* On one occasion I was present when the noise of the descent of 
* a large number of vultures on a dead buffalo lying just outside 
sk&Ia^ caused the tiger, who had killed it, to pot in an 
'appearance at noon day and protest his rights to the beef from 
' the feathered tribe, and not one of the birds would go near the 
* body so long as Mr, Stripes was in sight' " 
"Colonel Doutj;las Hamilton, in his journal, thus graphi- 
cally describes an Incident to the same effect :~ 
