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As the nation's country-music capital, Nashville is more used to the twang of fiddles and guitars than the clink of archaeologists' trowels. But the city is considerably excited by its tiger in the bank (which lies only five blocks from the Grand Ole Opry House). Spores, for one, is so sure that there may be other tiger and human remains about that he has taken to prowling construction sites in downtown Nashville in hopes of finding more fossil beds. The First American National Bank, too, is cashing in on the find ("the bones of an unsuccessful borrower," goes a local joke). At the formal opening of the new bank building this month, some of the bones will go on public display. Bank officials are also preparing to let archaeologists resume their digging under the building—though under a watchful eye. After all, says Vice Chairman William Greenwood, with tongue in cheek, the cavern is only 50 yards from the bank's vault.