T I O 



t,> rm-;i Ml its Hfr. escaped from its eas?, fastened on a 



img near, and killed it ; so that the 



with tiri'-arms and dew it in its 



liief. 



; ,;,rt iif our sketch with the account 

 bv -.John Mason, who formerly kept the Leasts in 

 to Mr. Wood, of Ins fearful encounter with 

 thc-v en) ' 



t the vear IHO'2 a tiger had been purchased by 



to sVnd to the emperor of Germany, and placed 



in the Tower, there to remain for a few days, till the ship 



destined to eonvev the animal abroad was ready. Hie 



onliucdin a large. sufficiently ventilated, wooden 



lined with iron hoops, some of which he ripped oil 



ni"lit of his confinement, and gnawed the 



CMe^nrt -ig perceived, the next day 



;ue was repaired by the' addition only of a strong piece 



nailed on the outside. The consci|i 



Mr. Wood. ' might well be expected. The turer renewed 

 his efforts, and in the course of the following night made 

 .and sprung upon a wall ten feet high, where he 

 remained till Mason came in the morning. 1 he tear ot 

 l.-Miigsueh a valuable animal induced this poor lellow, fo 

 a reward of ten guineas, to hazard his life in an attempt 

 cure the tiger. For this purpose he engaged a ser- 

 in- other persons to assist him. whom he 

 1 in a room, the door of which opened upon the 

 . from whence he could reach the animal. He then 

 provided himself with a strong rope, one end ot which he 

 throush the window to his companions, and with the 

 . having a running noose upon it, he slowly ap- 

 hed the tigei, and threw it over its neck. This was 

 the critical moment: the people within were directed to 

 pull the rope and si-cure the beast : untortunately the 

 noose slipped off', and the enraged animal immediately 

 ig upon the keeper, fixing Ins teeth into the llcshy 

 of his arm, and tearing his breast and hand in a 

 dreadful manner with his claws. In this shocking situ- 

 ation the poor man lay under the tiirer : while the s 



> bullet into four parts, and, having loaded his mi 

 he fired through the window at the animal : who. the mo- 

 men! he received the shot, quitted his hold; and. alter 

 -eiiug for a few minutes, expired. The bullet however 

 which destroyed the tiger had nearly been equally fatal to 

 the man. one of the quarters having glanced against his 

 : e, and deprived him of all sense and motion for a 

 lerable time. Nevertheless, after keeping his bed 

 a fortnight, he gradually recovered, and is now 1*117 pcr- 

 '!. thouirh hew-ill carry the marks of his enemy 

 about with him as long as he lives.' (Zoography, vol. :.) 



Royal Tiger. 



In the Kant the tiger is associated emblematically with 

 power. Thus tin- l'lnn.->e mandarin-, covered their s. 

 with its skin. In pi. 17 of the atlas to Sir <; 

 'o:i's ' Kmba-.sy to China." representing a military 

 pod, two swordsmen are habited and shielded - as to ex 

 I lie tiL'cr soldiers of ll\< 

 ong the choicest of their I 

 is with jewels, that formed the 

 of the thniiie of Hydei and Tippoo. 

 !>, the Hritish aiiiong the spoils of the 

 at Seriiigapatum. is well known : ait is th< 

 .illation, clumsy enough it must he admitted, of a 



T I G 



royal tiger tearing to pieces a soldier in the pay of tin; 

 British, and imitating the u'rowlmir of the beast aim 



I' the man, taken also upon the same 

 Sec the Museum at the India ii 



The term Tii; .isly applied to 



;uar. [LEOPARDS, vol. xiii.. p. 430.J 



Fossil. Tic; ms, NIC. 



Professor Buekland notices the remains of the Turer in 

 Kilkdale, at Plymouth, and in a of 



Phe great fossil" 'Hirer or Linn Felft 



Goldfi :ier extinct cats, lived before man was in 



Dee. The following fossil cats are enumerated by 

 Von M 



iv. : /'. / 

 '.oiz. and .i 



.lob.: /'. .Irrr/i >.. and Job.; /. tf 



Brav. ; !'. i-itltruli-its, Brav. ; /'. nj,!- 



.Kaup; and /'. prisca, Kaup. [FKLIDX, vo : 

 JL] 



Dr. Lund, in his -View of the Fauna of Brazil pie. 

 to the last Geological Revolution,' remarks that the Hunt- 

 ing Leopard /'///.. jiifi,it,i. Linn.; I'ynni.'iirii!., Wagl. . 

 which differs from the rest of the Cats in many essential 

 characters, has been very properly formed into a separate 

 genus: for its claws are not retractile, it is gregarious, and 

 of so mild a disposition that it is frequently tamed and 

 employed in thechaee. Hut. he observes, as a remarkable 

 contrast to this, that its dental system is upon a more mur- 

 derous plan than that of the true ./'/<*, not having the flat 

 projection on the large tearing molar of the upper jaw, 

 which is found in all the other predacecnis gencia. and the 

 development of which is in inverse proportion to the ani- 

 mal's carnivorous propensities. Dr. Lund icco-miscd this 

 form of dentition in a small animal of the 1 extinct Fauna 

 of the Brazilian region, which was the scene of his valuable 

 labours, not exceeding a domestic cat in size ; and h 

 named it Cifiiiiiliiriin iniiniliix. Besides this he discovered 

 the remains of two species of the normal feline form, one 

 - the long-tailed tiger-cat l-'i/i.- macroura, IV. 

 Max. , the other larger than the .lagnar /'-//.% Onpi, 

 Linn. , and comparable to the Tiger and the Lion, the 

 largest species uf the Old World. 



TlGKK-L'ATS. 



Under this title may be classed all those lesser striped 

 and spotted Asiatic. African, and American Cats which 

 do not come under the well-understood dcnominalio 



. and Panthers. 



Before we proceed to any description or illustration of 

 this beautiful trroup.it will be advantageous to the student, 

 to he put in possession o: M. Temminck's well-cm^ ideicd 

 and digested monograph of the genus 1','lix divided into 

 Actions according to their coographical distribu- 

 tion. 



Section 1. 



This comprises the l'clnl<r of the Old Continent and iU 

 archip. 



1. / including the three varieties of Hiiifiiiry, 



'. and Pertia. [ l.i 



2. 1 -. the Kovai Tiger (here treated 



;{. .' to, the Hunting Leopard. [LKOI-ARDS, vol. 



\in.. p. -4H3.] 



I. /' t, the Panther. | LKOT VKOS. | Of this 



M. T, inminck gives the following character : When adult, 

 less than the Lcopaid : tail as long as the body and Un- 

 its extremity when turned back reaching to the tip 

 of the nose: colour of the fur deep y< llowish t'ulvoi.- 

 internal part marked with lose like spots of the same hue 

 as the ground-colour of the fur: the numerous spois 

 closely approximated : the rose-like spots from 12 to II 



at the utmost in diameter: caudal vc 

 N.B. The number of caudal vcrti' -d to the. 



Leopard by M. Teinminck is 'J'J. It would appear that 

 there is no correct Jigiire of the true Paul 



The Black Ti. '"" Kvatbanf. of Sir 



Stamford Rattles, is considered as only a dark varieu of 

 the Leopard. 



- considered as also to be erased from the 

 list of species, as it is only the youmr of the Leopard or 

 Panther. 



(i. /;/'/ v i/Kii-ruetlu, the RmMU-D.ihaii. [Ltui'AKDi, 

 vol. xiii., p. -1'M.J 



