ITHOUT en- 

 tering into any 

 very length- 

 ened details, I 

 will here make room for 

 a few natural history notes, collected from various 

 sources : — 



The Cat belongs to the same family as the lion, 

 tiger, panther, leopard, puma, serval, ocelot, and 

 lynx. The tribe is, perhaps, one of the best defined 

 in zoology, all its members having characteristics 

 of structure and habit not to be confounded with 



