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shot a tiger 11 feet 1 inch.” (6) “On 19th April 1871, Mr. Joe Shillingford 
shot a tiger 11 feet. The remark in his journal is “ huge tiger, skull sent to the 
Museum.” 
Turning to “ Big Game Shooting ” ^ Badminton Library) we find no less 
than thirty-five tiger measurements between 10 feet and 11 feet 9 ins., 
recorded^ by Sterndale and in the columns of the Asian , Land and Water , etc. 
Col. J. r. C. Ross, in a letter to the Field , wrote as follows regarding 
a huge tiger 
During Christmas week, 1873, in the Nursingpore District, Central Pro¬ 
vinces, India, it was my good fortune to kill a tiger, whose footsteps had been 
noted in the jungles for a year or so as being of rare size.” 
“The tiger was measured very precisely a few minutes after death by those 
fine and experienced sportsmen, the late Mr. Le Mesurier, then of the G. I. P. 
Railway, and Col. C. Plowden, in my presence, and I copv the details as written 
down at the time.” 
“ Length. 7 ft. 6£ins.; tail only, 3 ft. 3 ins.: round forearm, 19£ ins.; height 
from centre of pad to tip of shoulder, 3 ft. 6 ins. ; girth round body at forehand, 
4 ft. 8 ins. r Ihe skin, used as a carpet for many years, now measures: to base 
of tail, 7 ft. 11 ins. ; tail, 3 ft. 8 ins.; total, 11 ft. 7 ins. 
