Hunter's Search for Blue Tigers and Other Rarities Mr. Arthur de Carle Sowerby, a Fellow of the "Zoo," and a member of the Biological Society of Washington, U.S.A., will shortly leave London in search of blue tigers in China.
What a blue tiger is really like no one in Europe or America yet knows. It may be sky-blue or periwinkle, or cobalt or even Prussian blue. At any rate, it is said to be blue. It has been heard of along the south-eastern coast of China, and it is much "wanted" by zoologists.
Mr. Sowerby is going.to track blue tigers on behalf of the Smith-soniou Institute at Washington—a natural history museum. He will go prepared, if necessary, to hunt a blue tiger to its lair in a cave, with the aid of torches, and to shoot it at sight.
No Specimens 1x Any Coutection.
"The blue tiger is perhaps a distinct species," said Mr. Sowerby to a "Daily Express" _representative recently, "and it is probably smaller than the Bengal tiger. Stories are told of it having been seen near the Chinese coast, but there is no specimen of it in any collection."
Another animal of which there is no-living example in any Zoo is the great panda, or large cat-bear, and Mr. Sowerby hopes to find one of these. The great panda stands! the south-west of China.
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