1124 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXVII 1. 
I send heremth a photograph of head No. 1 on the following list, which shows 
some of the marks well. Those that are indistinct on the right horn are clear 
on the left. 
No. 
Species. 
Horn Measure- 
ment. 
Winter or 
Stint marks. 
1 
0. hodgsoni . . 
45" 
9 
Much broken at 
tips. 
2 
Do. 
38" 
6 
Do. do. 
3 
0. vignei 
29r 
4 or 5 
One doubtful. 
4 
Do. 
28" 
4 
5 
25J" 
It is not probable that heads of 0. vignei from low elevations would show 
the marks to the same extent, if at all, as should my theory be correct, they are 
caused by recm-rmg periods of practical starvation during the severe winters 
of Ladakh. 
Ryajvi Factory P.O., J. S. E. WALKER. 
Darbahnga, Bihar and Orissa, 
23rd May 1922. 
XO. IV.— NOTES ON i\L\N EATING TIGERS. 
For some months past, a family of man eating tigers had been doing a lot 
of damage about 18 miles from here. Their excursions extended dovTi a 
nullah seven miles or so long. We sent our head Jemadar to reconnoitre 
and he came face to face with 4 tigers, 2 of which he reported as being of a 
very light colour. 
Three days later we shot 4 tigers out of the same jmigle, and, extraordinarily 
enough, a big male leopard, 7'-9", which at one portion of the beat climbed a tree 
evidently in fear of the tigers. We thought we had bagged all the tigers, but on 
examination found that two were full growTi cubs, and two about three quarters 
«wown. The two fuU grovTi cubs were of the ordinary colour and marking of a 
tiger, 1 male and 1 female. Measurements about 6'-6". The three quarters 
gro-mi cubs were unique and to me seemed pure albinos. They had pink 
eyes and were evidently in very bad condition because before being shot at 
they only trotted along like big dogs, whilst the other two galloped hard. 
Another peculiarity was the long neck, quite unlike that of any tiger or leopard 
I have ever seen ; one was a male and one a female. As it was dark we could 
not beat anymore but two days later got the mother, a fine beast in the prime 
of life and condition. Measurement 8'-9". I forgot to mention the measurement 
of the freaks, viz., 6'-0". Such beasts have never been known of, or seen here, nor 
during the many shootmg excursions my father (the late INIaharaja Uripendra 
of Cooch Behar) made into Assam. 
I should be glad if any of the readers of your Magazine could give me any 
definite information on the subject. Could it be possible that all four cubs be- 
longed to the same litter ? 
VICTOR N. NARAYAN, 
Cooch Behar, 
3rd May 1922. 
