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IN a book recently published entitled “Thirteen Years Among the Wild Beasts of India”, by Mr. G. P. Sanderson, of Mysore, at pages 272, 273, the following remarks occur regarding the size of the tiger, and in reference to certain measurements of that animal given in a small volume entitled “The Royal Tiger of Bengal: his Life and Death”, published in 1875.
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FAYRER, J. The Size of the Indian Tiger. Nature 18, 219–220 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018219b0
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