I So TllK TICER's I'AKTIALITV TO fUTUin FLlvSM. 
where the body of a tiger (killed by a native shikarie the 
previous day with a poisoned arrow) was found partially 
devoured. They must have been ravenously hungry, 
indeed." 
In a second postscript he says : "I have only this 
moment returned from viewing the carcass of a cow killed 
by a tiger yesterday, I shall very briefly describe what I 
witnessed while I retain a vivid recollection of the facts. 
The tiger had killed the bullock in the open, about a 
couple of hundred yards from a long stretch of very dense 
jungle into which he had dragged it. No one had been 
to the spot before I went there this afternoon, so the tiger 
must be allowed to have had every opportunity of having 
a tug into fresh beef, if so disposed, undisturbed, notwith- 
standing which the carcass remains entire, with the excep- 
tion of a very small piece. The tiger must be somewhere 
in the jungle, not far from his food, for I observed a flock 
of vultures {Gyps bengaiensis) on the qui vive^ but at a 
respectful distance from the carcass. Press of business 
elsewhere, which cannot be postponed, compels me most 
reluctantly to quit this place, Kainmaree, this evening, or 1 
should, I daresay, have been able to give a good account of 
the marauder. Skikaries and ryots hereabouts in the Soon- 
derbuns tell me, that unless the tiger is very hungry indeed, 
or is in dread of being disturbed, he will not feed on his kill 
till putrefaction fairly sets in. 
''Apropos of the superior felines eating game killed by 
the sportsman, I cannot resist the temptation of quoting 
a sentence from Gordon Gumming s * Lion Hunting in 
South Africa,' which I chanced to see on opening his 
book just now : — ' Lions do not refuse, as has been asserted, 
