704 CLASS XVII. 



VII. 125, 126) ; at present this species is met with only in some parts of 

 Western Asia and in most countries of nearly the whole of Africa. (In the 

 diluvial period a feline species was living which had much resemblance 

 to the lion, but was larger ; its remains are met with in various caverns, 

 Felis spelcea Goldfdss, Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. ix. p. 476, Cuv. Ossein, 

 foss. IV. p. 450, PI. 36.) 



Felis concolor L. (and discolor Schbeb.), Gm., Buff. ix. PI. 19, Schreb. 

 Sdiigth. Tab. 104 B ; the Puma or Couguar, ruddy-yellow, with incon- 

 spicuous, darker, round spots ; the tail has not a tuft of hair at the 

 extremity. This species, smaller than the lion or the tiger, is dispersed 

 over a great part of America. 



Felis Tigris L., Buff. ix. PI. 9, Schreb. Sdugth. Tab. 98, Menag. du 

 Mus. II. pp. 30 — 44, GUERIN Iconogr., Mainm. PI. 18, fig. 2 ; the tiger; 

 in Southern and Eastern middle Asia, even in temperate regions between 

 45'' and 55" N.L. (see Eheenberg Ann. des Sc. nat. xxi. p. 387), from 

 Java and Sumatra to the peninsular of Corea. (Hybrids between lions and 

 tigers have been observed in menageries.) 



Amongst the large spotted species the first to be recorded is the Jagriar 

 of South America and the southern part of North America, Felis onca L., 

 Buff. ix. Tab. 12, Azara Voyages, PI. 9, F. Cuv. Mammif. Livr. 17, 29. 

 — In Africa is found the ^an^Ae?' (Felis par d us Li., Gm., B,nd Felis leopardus 

 Gm.), Felis leopardus Temm., Menag. duMus. 1. p. 212, and on the Sunda 

 islands a somewhat smaller species, with very long tail, Felis variegata 

 Wagn., Felis pardus Temm. 



Amongst these spotted species we record also, on account of the claws 

 only partially retractile^, Felis jubata Schreb. Sdugth. Tab. 105, and 

 Felis guttata Hermann, Schreb. Tab. 105 b., Cdv. F. Ani., &d. ill., 

 Manim., PI. 42, fig. 2 ; two species, formerly confounded, of which the 

 first occurs in India, the last in Senegal and Kordofan (see Dovernoy 

 Alem. de la Soc. d'Hist. nat. de Strasbourg, 11. 1835). They form the sub- 

 genus Cynailurus Wagler. 



To the smaller species belongs our domestic cat, of which there are many 

 varieties. The anatomy of this species (osteology and myology) has been 

 treated circumstantially by Straus-Durckheim Anatomic descri2itive et com- 

 parative du Chat, 2 Tomes, Paris, 1845, 4to, and Atlas in fol. It is sup- 

 posed that this species is derived from a wild feline species of North 

 Africa, Fells maniculata Ruefpell, Zool. Ail. Tab. i., Schreb. Suppl. 

 Tab. 100 B, whilst that which occurs in the forests of Europe (chiefly in 

 mountain regions in the Hartz, in the Carpathian mountains) and in some 

 parts of Asia, Felis catus L., Buff. vi. PL i, Schreb. Tab. 107 a, is 

 larger and has a shorter tail ; there are also some difierences in the skull. 

 See Blasius Fauna Deufschl. i. s. 162. 



In some species the tail is very short and the ears with a pencil of hairs. 

 To these belongs the lynx of the ancients, which, according to Covier, Felis 



^ Owen On the Anatomy of the Cheetah, Felis jubata. Transact, of the Zool. Soc. 

 I. 2, 1834, pp. 129—138, PI. 20. 



