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display the characters of the family in the greatest 

 perfection. Dr Leach formed a genus from the 

 Lion, Leo, which will perhaps now contain three 

 species, as some naturalists are of opinion that 

 the African and Asiatic Lions are distinct, and we 

 learn from the reports of the Zoological Society of 

 London, that the long sought for maneless Lion 

 has been discovered. Mr Gray has also made a 

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

 to the Felis jubata, gives the name of Cynailurus- 

 Another form seems yet un characterized in the Pu- 

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

 and peculiar physiognomy, comparatively short legs, 

 and 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 

 typically represent them, we cannot with decision 

 assert. It maybe remarked, that both the Lynchus 

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

 tain subordinate sections, which might rank as sub- 

 genera. 



We have experienced considerable difficulty in 

 procuring specimens, or good copies, from whence 

 to make the drawings for the accompanying illustra- 

 tions. A few have been taken from the lithographic 

 plates of Frederic Cuvier's Histoire Naturelle des 

 Mammiferes, and the Atlas of Ruppel, and those 

 from other works are mentioned in the details ; we 

 have also two beautiful drawings by Mr Lear of 

 London, taken from animals in the Surry Zoological 



