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[lisplay the characters of the family in the greatest 

 >erfection. Dr Leach formed a genus from the 

 ^.ion, Zfo, which will perhaps now contain three 

 pecies, as some naturalists are of opinion that 

 ;he African and Asiatic Lions are distinct, and we 

 earn from the reports of the Zoological Society of 

 Condon, that the long sought for maneless Lion 

 ias been discovered. Mr Gray has also made a 

 us from the lynxes, Lynchus; and M. Wagler, 

 ;o the Felis jubata, gives the name of Cynailurus. 

 Another form seems yet un characterized in the Pu- 

 na, Jagourandi, &c., which have a flattened head 

 md peculiar physiognomy, comparatively short legs, 

 md the tail more furry or brushlike than the others. 

 There thus seem to be five very distinct forme, but 

 whether those which we have now mentioned would 

 ypically represent them, we cannot with decision 

 issert. It maybe remarked, that both the Lynchus 

 )f Gray, and Felis, as we have placed it, would con- 

 ain subordinate sections, which might rank as sub- 

 genera, 



We have experienced considerable difficulty in 

 )rocuring specimens, or good copies, from whence 

 o make the drawings for the accompanying illustra- 

 ions. A few have been taken from the lithographic 

 )lates of Frederic Cuvier's Histoire Naturelle des 

 Vlammiferes, and the Atlas of Ruppel, and those 

 rom other works are mentioned in the details ; we 

 lave also two beautiful drawings by Mr Lear of 

 -rondon, taken from animals in the Surry Zoological 



