TIGERS ARE DEAR TO-DAY.
A good Nubian lion is worth £2OO, a Senegal specimen little more than half this .sum. A line tiger is also worth about £llOO. In Bengal, where the most beautiful and largest tigers arc trapped, there is a Government bount\ paid on each, lor Iho annua! mortality in India through tigers and snakes—-i-hiell.\ cobras—is something appalling. The long-haired Chinese and biberian tigers bring as much as £:J00 anil other very valuuble varieties come I'rotn Persia runt Kussinti Turk caftan.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2651, 30 October 1906, Page 7
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