CHAP. XII.] 



DIFFERENT KINDS OF OATS. 



395 



The tail also is shorter than the body. Two individuals have been 

 obtained : one from China, the other from Persia. 



Pig. 165. SKULL OP LEOPARD (F, pardalis), 



(4.) THE OUNCE (Felts undo). 

 This is a very interesting species, exhibiting to us, as it does, a 



Fig. 16(3. THE OUNCE (F. uncla).' 



large feline animal adapted to live in a cold climate, as the mammoth 

 was exceptionally so adapted amongst elephants. 



* See Elliot's Monograph, from which the above figure has been, by kind per- 

 mission, copied. 



