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Order CARNIVORA. 



Family FELKLE. 

 Genus FELIS. 



138. Felis leo, Linn. Lion. 



Hab. Africa and South-western Asia. 



a. Female. Presented by Mr. Alderman Finnis, March 27, 



1856. From Babylonia. 



6. Male. Purchased, Oct. 28, 1859. From South Africa. 

 c. Male ; d. Female. Purchased, March 8, 1862. 

 e. Female. Deposited, Nov. 29, 1864. 



/. Female. Presented by William Cubitt, Esq., May 11, 1865. 

 (/. Male. Deposited, April 6, 1869. From Babylonia. 

 h. Presented by T. Kerr Lynch, Esq., F.Z.S., Sept. 27, 1869. 

 ?. Male ; j. Female. Deposited, March 25, 1870. 

 Tc. Male ; 7. Female. Presented by G. W. D. A. Smith, Esq., 



Aug. 16, 1870. 



m. Female. Purchased, June 6, 1872. 

 n. Male ; o-q. Females. Born in the Menagerie, July 8, 



1872. 



r. Male ; s. Females. Purchased, June 6, 1873. From Persia. 

 t. Female. Deposited, June 9, 1873. 

 u. Female. Presented by the Hon. M. E. G. Finch Hatton, 



June 19, 1873. 

 v. Female. Presented by J. Humfrey, Esq., Jan. 8, 1874. 



From Kattywar, East Indies. 



139. Felis concolor, Linn. Puma*. 

 Hab. America. 



a. Male ; b. Female. Presented by W. D. Christie, Esq., 

 F.Z.S., Jan. 14, 1857. From Buenos Ayres. 



c. Female. Red variety. Presented by the late W. D. 



Stewart, Esq., July 6, 1869. From Demerara. 



d. Male. Presented by Capt. Dow, F.Z.S., Aug. 29, 1869. 



From Honduras. 



* For a notice of the breeding of this species in the Society's Gar- 

 dens, See Bartlett, P.Z.S. 1861, p. 141, pi. xxn. 



