6o NATURAL HISTORY ESSAYS 



climate, and diet, the natural attitudes and attributes 

 of a pair of these beautiful animals. Unfortunately 

 the male died after about a week in London. Another 

 clouded tiger was purchased on June 20, 1901, for 

 the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens, 



One word more. The student will find amongst 

 the mammalia several curious cases of giants and 

 dwarfs occurring in the same family — perhaps even 

 the same genus — the smaller animal often to the 

 unskilled observer seeming merely an absurdly 

 faithful replica of its congener. The striped hyaena, 

 strong-jawed and ravenous, has a "double" in the 

 feeble-toothed aard wolf ; the greater kudu with its 

 curling horns and tall stature is duplicated by the 

 lesser kudu of Somaliland; the common hippopotamus 

 is represented in Liberia by a pigmy species the size 

 of a heifer. So also is the clouded tiger simulated 

 in pocket edition by the marbled cat i^F. marmoratd) 

 of the same regions, though the latter species has 

 a shorter face and a higher forehead. The F. viai-- 

 inorata was first described by Mr. Martin in the 

 proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1836. As 

 regards markings, one finds the same semi-rings or 

 blotches on the fur, vertically disposed as inF. nebulosa ; 

 the small solid spots on the limbs and head and a few 

 of the rings on the tail are also there with almost 

 uncanny fidelity, though the tail rings may be incom- 

 plete. One even notes (in some specimens at any 

 rate) the black lines at the angle of eye and jaw seen 



