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Wallinger, W.A.
"Kills" by carnivorous animals: being some remarks on the method of their identification
1904 Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society (15): 312-318
It was with no small amount of diffidence and trepidation that I originally submitted, in a paper read before this Society, a set of maxims which appeared to me to govern panther and tiger "kills," arrived at by a system of close observation during a series of years (Vol. XIII, Journal, Bombay Natural History Society). It is barely necessary to represent that a correct and prompt diagnosis of a "kill," wherever seen, is of the greatest possible importance to the sportsman. It would make this paper too long if an effort were once more made to differentiate between "kills" by panthers and tigers and those directly attributable to the other carnivora commonly found in India. I must restrict my energies, therefore, to shewing that the maxims originally drawn up for the guidance of the tyro in large game shooting are sufficiently accurate to be of _some_ practical value.
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