Captain F. Nelson of Siddapore and Pedda cheroo recommendecipoisoning tigers. Buffaloes or bull'ocks should be picketed in the most likely cross-paths in the jungle. As soon as one is killed, and. any part eaten a teaspoonful of strychnine should be inserted under the flap of the skin next the part eaten. The skin should be raised with a bamboo knife like a paper human hand should touch the carcase, and one person only should approach to insert the poison. A -watcher in a tree would keep the vultures off till sunset, when he should quit the place. A writer says—` Australia has for years past most thoroughly dealt with the dingo or native dog,—I mean by the systematic use of strychnine. An Australian stockman troubled with the wild dog finishes his day's work by riding across country over which the dingo roams, trailing a paunch in an advanced state of decom position, and he hangs at intervals upon the trees a bit of meat with a little strychnine enclosed in a slit cut in it. By these means over thousand.s of miles the wild dog has been abso lutely extirpated, and many of the more recent settlers have scarcely ever seen one, in districts in which they were once abundant and most annoying.' In Cochin-China, Malays obtain their livellood by tiger-catching, the skin of this animal being 'valuable. Two Malays generally go in company, and travel over many parts of the country. Those who follow this business regularly, have chops or permits from the quong of Saigon, allowing them to build a hut for their use in any place they think fit. The hut is built on the top of
four bamboos, from 15 to 20 feet high ; and as the tiger cannot climb these, the two men can remain in it and watch their snares in safety. The snare consists of large leaves, or sometimes pieces of paper about six inches square, covered on one side with a substance of the same nature as bird-lime, and containing a poison, the smallest particle of which, gettinr, into the animal's eyes, is said to cause instant ancd total blindness. They are laid about thickly, with the bird-limed side upwards, in the track of a tiger ; and as surely as the animal puts his paw on one of the treacherous leaves, he becomes a victim ; for, finding it stick to his foOt, he shakes it, by which means other leaves adhere to it ; he then pro bably rubs his paw over his head, in the attempt to rid himself of these leafy encumbrances, but they stick to bis head and face ; he then perhaps rolls himself on the ground, when he becomes fairly covered ; and, while scratching and rubbing himself to get free, some of the poisonous bird lime gets into his eyes, and blinds him. He growls and roars in agony, and this is the signal for his captors to come and despatch him. The Malays then skin the animal, and take away the parts of his body that may be valuable. They leave the carcase, well strevrn with more leaves, as a bait for other tigers ; they also ensnare other animals and birds in the same manner.—Brown's Cochin-China ; Jerdon ; Blyth ; Rice.