T I G 



HI 



T I G 



poU inv. I yellowish, and und 



O f . hue. On the belly numerous lartrc 



with Ion- \vliitr 



i xternall . - tin- head, 



i^nck. ami form a 



umev.hat bushy, and devoid of 



those 



on tl . ':i tin' upper part of the body each hair 



. at the base, then yellow, and at tin- :ipr\ black. 

 ie liind.-r pait ol' tin- back the hairs ahnmt black at 

 I hr base, and, mi the sides of tin- body, each hair L- 

 tin- 1 is then a considerable space ol' yellowish- 



\vhitc colour: towards the apex they are while, ami at the 

 black. 'Hie irrcaler number of the hairs of the 

 moustaches white. I.cn-th from nose to root of tail. 'J(i 

 inches; 'of tail fur included , 1 1 inch. s. Ilci-hto! 

 at shoulders, 13 inches. Six,' about equal to (hat of the' 

 :i>n wild-eat of Europe : hut the 1'anipas cat is stouter, 

 i.l smaller, and its tail shorter. \Yaterh.. 

 Mr. \Vatcrhoi; /';/' Hi' 1 H-'niffi- oliservcs that 



the markings of this animal \ary sli-htly in intensity: 

 those on the body, he remarks, are -cnci-.illv indistinct ; 

 but the black rings on the legs are alwa\s'\cry conspi- 

 cuous. 



ulily. D'Azara says that he knows not, nor has he 

 I. that this spi cii--- exists in Para-nay, although it for- 

 merly mav have been seen there : but as the country 

 became tolerably well peopled, and there were fewer plains, 

 the inhabitants nrobably extirpate. 1 it. He can-hl four in 

 the Pampas of Buenos Ayrcs. between 3.V and 3U" S. hit., 

 nnd three others on the to. He -ays they are 



found on both sides of the La Plata. 



Darwin i Air. ril.' -i\c-; as its habitat Santa Crux, Pata- 

 gonia f April), and Hahia Blanea Auirn.sf . He states that 

 common o\er the whole, of the -real plains which 

 compose the eastern side of the southern part of America : 

 anil lie says he has reason to believe, from the accounts he 

 received, that it is found near the Strait of Magellan, 

 which would srive it a ransje of nearly 1-HX) miles in a 

 north and south direction, D'Ar.ara having stated that it 

 .vis northward as far as 30 S. lat. One of Mr. Darwin's 

 specimens was obtained in 50 S. lat., at Santa Cruz. 



// 'A//*-. I-'ood, $-c. D'Azara says that the natives call 

 this animal ^ntn jmjrrn, because it lives on the plains. 

 concealing itself in jungles, without entering into the woods 

 and thickets. Aiirrrax, or iruinea-pi-s, according to him, 

 form its principal food. Mr. Darwin states that it takes 

 its name from paja,' the Spanish word for straw, from its 

 habit of frequenting reeds. The specimen taken by him 

 at Santa Cnu was met witlv in a valley whcie tliickets were 

 crowing. \Vlien disturbed it did not run away, but drew 

 itself up and hissed. 



Punpu Ca. (Zool. 



We here conclude our notice of the Hirer-cats, a race 

 illy appointed as the principal a-ents for kcepin- 

 down the birds and smaller mammalia, which abound in 

 Warm Him 



TI'GLIUM. -CKOTON.-] 



TIM! \'\KS. km- Of Armenia, the ally of Mith; 

 1 he (i real, who i,'iue him hi s daughter Cleopatra in marriaste. 

 He wits master of the Inr-e tract between Kjrypt. in the 

 M>llth-weft and the Caspian Sea in the north-eat, wlii<-!i 

 vrai bounded by Assyria and Media on the east, and In 

 the kingdoms of Pontus and of Cappadocia on tin 



and north-west. The earlier history of Titfrancs, is little 

 known; Strabo (p. 532, Cas.) and .lustm \x\iii. : state 

 that he was sent in h, a hostage to the king of 



he Parthian-, V Mm to liberty. 



He conquered Gordyene ai: .niia. and the S\ nans 



chose him for their kin:; in H.c. 84, or. . to A'ppian 



De Reb. Syr.,70 .in n.f. HO. Uefore H.c. 7-1 lie cone.'ided 



an alliance with Mithridatea, who was thi n his 



thiid war with the Romans. The conilition- 

 NMTC, that Mithridates should be master of th' 

 which Ihey hoped to conquer, and that < 

 the inhabitants and ail the nioveahle ]iroperty that he could 

 carry oil'. Plutarch slates Lun. '. 'Xyland.' that 



my of Ti-iranes VMIS composi-d of -JWI.iKH) men, 

 20.1KH) nrchei-s, fw.tXK) hor>e. i:*UXK) foot, and ItVlKK) 

 pionee'-s and train, and that Arabs and warlike Albani 

 from the Caucasus abounded in the Aimeiiian camp. The 

 campaign was opened in H.C'. 7-t. Cap|)adocia and Bithy- 

 nia were conquered, anil .Mithridates laid sie-e to C\/iciis 

 in Bithynia, but Lucullus came to relieve it. and alter vari- 

 ous reverses Mithridates was compelled to My to Tu- 

 (i:i . The conduct of the Armenian kin- had I . 

 cere during thoe events, and, the Honians hein- now 

 victorious, he not only refused to receive his father- 

 in-law, but set a prize of a hundred talents on his head, 

 on the pretext that the kinsr had persuaded his son, who 

 was likewise called Ti^ranes, to rebel a-;unst his father 

 and to join the Romans. .Milhridates nevertheless 

 cecded in pacilYiii!; his son-in-law, and they joined their 

 armies to meet f.ucnllus, who had crossed the Kuphrates 

 and theTi-ris, and had laid sie-e to Tiirraiiocerta. the new 

 capital of the Armenian kingdom. [TUJKAMH.-KKTA.] A 

 battle ensued near this town, in which Tiirrancs was com- 

 pletely defeiitcd ^(ith October, Git . and his capital fell into 

 the hands of the Romans. Tiirranes and .Mithridates 

 luuim; entered into negotiations with l j hnite> III., kin- 

 of the Parthians, for the purpose of drawing him into 

 their alliance, I.ucullns, who had now carried his con- 

 quest in Armenia as far as Artaxata on the upper part, 

 of the Aiaxes. marched to Mesopotamia to attack the 

 Parthians. lint a mutiny of his soldiers compelled him to 

 retreat to Cappadocia, where the) dispersed, as it seems, by 

 the instigation of Pomjx'y, who aimed at the supreme, com- 

 mand in the war (C>7 . The Romans lost Cappadocia, and 

 Ti-ianes carried on" a t;reat number of the inhabitants of 

 this piovincc, as well as of Cilicia and Galatia. Pompey 

 entered Asia Minor in B.C. tiU. and in the sune year he 

 defeated Mithridates in a irreat battle on the Kupl 

 Mithridates, having e\])erieiiced the faithless character of 

 i-in-lavv, fled to Phana-oria in the island of Tainan, 

 while Tiirranes humiliated himself before the Romans, 

 then encamped in the neighbourhood of Artaxata. He 

 went to the tent of Pompey. and, kneelinj; before his vie- 

 torious enemy, took oft' his royal diadem, which Pompey 

 however would not accept. The policy of the Romans 

 required an independent kingdom between their dominions 

 and the dan-emus power of the Parthians. Ti-ranes : ! 

 fore wa--, reinstated in Armenia, t xcept the districts of (ior- 

 dycne and that of Sophcne, or the westernmost part of 

 Armenia Maiina, which he was obli-ed to cede to his 

 rebellions son Ti-iancs, then an ally of the Romans. 

 Besides these districts, he ceded to the Romans his king- 

 dom of Syna, includintr Phirnieia and all his conquests 

 in Cilicia, (ialalia. and Cappadocia: he ]mid six thousand 

 talents, and he ir;i*c half a miiia to each Homan soldier, ten 

 mirni- to each centlirion. and sixty miiia 1 . or one talent, to 

 carhtiibnne. Plutarch, l.in-ulliix. p. 637, Nylatid. ; com)). 

 Aj'pian, J>>' Hclln Mithrid., c. KM. It seen, s that alter 

 this humiliation Ti-ianes led an obscure and tranquil life, 

 for his name disappears from history, and the year of his 



Coin of Tarawa. 

 Britiili Mmrum. Actual ittc. Sihcr. WcljW, 2J3J Jrniiu. 



