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tremities yellowish \v1ute, with numerous deep- black transvorsc 

 bands, which nearly form rings, being only slightly interrupted 

 on the inner surfaces. Feet whitish yellow ; tail above, deep 

 black ; beneath, except towards tip, reddish yellow ; nails dark 

 horn-coloured. Length from nose to base of tail three feet ten 

 inches; length of tail thirteen inches : height at shoulder two 

 feet four inches, at rump about two feet. 



Inhabits South Africa — not so abundant as the preceding. 



Collect du Mus- H. brunnea, Tem. Acad, de Slock. 1820', 

 1 part, pi. 2. Hyaena villosa. Smith, Trans. Lin. Society, 

 vol. XV p. 462. Strand Jutj or Strand Wolf, of the Cape Coionist^. 



Genus Felis. LinncEus. 



Incisors i, canines \ \, molars ti, oi H, — 30 or 28. Upper 

 jaw — two first molars spurious, conical, and strong ; third with 

 three lobes and a small tubercle, which is wanting in some species; 

 fiburth nearly fiat. Lower jaw — two first spurious. Headround; 

 jaws short; tor.gue aculeated; ears trianqidar, andmo^e or less 

 pointed; pupils circular or vertical ; anterior extremities with 

 five toes; hinder ones with four. 



Felis Leo. (The Lion.) Mule. The upper parts of the head> 

 the chin, neck, shoulders, and belly, covered with a long shaggy 

 blackish brown and tawny hair ; on the other parts of the body, 

 the extremities, and tail, the hair is short, of a tawny yellow 

 colour, darkest on the back, and finely pencilled, particularly on 

 the tail, with dull black ; the point of the latter is tufted, and of 

 a brown-black colour. The outer and inner surfaces of the ears 

 tawny; the hairs about the base of the former, long, black, 

 closely applied to ears and projecting beyond their margins. 

 Eyes yellow, pupils circular ; under parts of hinder extremities 

 an uniform pale tawny ; each claw concealed by a tuft of black- 

 ish hair. Length from point of nose to base of tail about six 

 feet ; length of tail about thirty-four inches : height at shoulder 

 three feet six inches, at rump about three feet two inches. 



The female is smaller and without any appearance of a mane. 

 The young are dull tawny pencilled with black, and more or 

 less striped and spotted with the same colour ; no tuft at the 

 point of the tail. 



Inhabits Africa. 



Ob*. The description given is that of the South African Lion. That 

 <«rhich inhabits Seoegal and Guinea is said to be smaller, and the male. 

 to have a mane of a much lighter colour. In Griffith's translation of 

 Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, it is stated, that " Major Smith has lately 

 been informed by Professor Kretschmen of Frankfort, that he was in ex- 

 pectation of receiving from Nubia the skin and jaws of a new species of 

 Cat, larger than the Lion, of a brownish colour, and without mane," 





