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people had been killed by the tigers in the immediate 
neighbourhood of where these animals were ultimately either 
killed, or captured, and, for six weeks before, the road 
that passed near their lair had been closed, no one daring 
to pass along it. But after the capture of these two animals 
and the death of the others, no more persons were killed, 
and the road was opened. Tigers in which the man-eating 
propensity is developed become very bold, and while I was 
at Bhamo, in Upper Burma, where tigers are very plentiful, 
a tigress cleared the town-stockade, nine feet high, and 
killed a woman who had been sitting, in the low verandah 
of a ground hut, making thatch. She had evidently 
been whisked off by one fell swoop of the tigress’s 
paw, for no marks of the animal’s teeth could be seen. 
The tiger breeds at any season, and the tigress has 
usually from two to four at a birth, and her period of gesta¬ 
tion is from 14 to 15 weeks. 
In some of the dens adjoining the tigers are the 
Leopards, viz., the common leopard and the black leopard. 
The former. Felispardus , like the lion and tiger, was well 
known to the ancients who had a curious superstition re¬ 
garding it that survives more or less to the present day and 
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gives rise to frequent discussion in sporting papers as to 
the supposed difference between the Panther or Pard and the 
Leopard. “ It was thought not to be actually the same 
animal as the Panther or Pard, but to be a mongrel or 
hybrid between the male Pard and the Lioness ; hence it 
was called the Lion-panther, or Leopardus. This error, 
as Archbishop Trench tells us, “ has lasted into modern 
times ; thus Fuller says, ‘ Leopards and Mules are properly 
no creatures.’ ” The words Pard, Panther and Leopard have 
reference to one and the same animal. It has a wide distri- 
