THE tiger's PARTIALITV TO PUTRID FLESH. 1 79 
" Apart from the interest naturally felt by all of us in 
common in acquiring accurate information regarding the 
feeding habits of the royal quarry, the result of this enquiry 
will supply the sportsman with such knowledge as cannot 
but prove of immense practical value to him ; if the tiger in 
reality evinces a pemhant for eating game killed by others 
when it becomes putrid, the sportsman in future, instead of 
offering him a living bait in the shape of a fat ox tethered 
close to his haunts, to induce him to show himself, will use a 
more tempting bait, to wit, a stinking carcass, the scent of 
which lie can sniff from afar. Moreover, the former plan, 
which is now adopted, has a smack of cruelty which cannot 
but be distasteful to the true sportsman, and he would gladly 
avoid it." 
"P.S.— I have just found that our accomplished Indian 
naturalist who, alas ! has recently been numbered with the 
dead' — ^I mean the late Mr. Blyth — was well aware that 
tigers will eat animals killed by others, vide Indian Sporting 
Review, New Series, No. i. In the third number of the 
same periodical, Ilogspear (Mr. F. Bruce Simson, B.CS., 
who is reputed on good authority to have shot during his 
brilliant career as a sportsman in this country literally 
hundreds of tigers), also expresses the same opinion. He 
says, ' many persons think tigers only eat the flesh of 
animals which they kill.' Hogspear then goes on to relate 
a lengthy tale— too lengthy to be tacked on to the fag-end 
of this article, or I would gladly give it, — which shows that 
tigers will feed on the carcass of even one of their own 
kind ; this was established beyond doubt by the discovery 
of large pieces of striped skins inside the stomachs of a 
tigress and her cub, which had been shot near the spot 
