CHAP. XII.] DIFFEBENT KINDS OF CATS. 



395 



The tail also is shorter than the body. Two individuals have been 

 obtained : one from China, the other from Persia. 



Fig. 165.— Skull of Leopard {F. ;;a?'cZctZis) 



(4.) The Ounce (Feiis iincia). 

 This is a very interesting species, exhibiting to us, as it does, a 



Fig. ICG.— TUE Ol-xce (F. unclay 



large feline animal adapted to live in a cold climate, as the mammoth 

 was exceptionally so adapted amongst elephants. 



* See Elliot's ^Monograph, from wliick the aljove figure has beeji, by Idnd per- 

 mission, copied. 



