NATURAL HISTORY. 2S3 



CHAP XIV. 



OB CARNIVOROUS ANIMALS CONTINUED THE LION 

 THE TIGER THE PANTHER, OUNCE, AND LEO- 

 PARD THE JAGUAR THE COUGUAR THE 



LYNX THE CARACAL THE HV.ENA THE 



CIVET AND ZIBET THE GENKTT THE 



ONDATRA AND DESMAN. 



THE LIOX. 



1 T has been remarked, that in all hot climates the 

 terrestrial animals are larger and stronger than in 

 c"old or temperate ones. They are also bolder and 

 more ferocious, all their natural qualities seeming to 

 partake of the ardour of the climates in which they 

 live. The lion, produced beneath the burning sun of 

 Africa, or of India, is above all others the fiercest and 

 most terrible. Our wolves and other carnivorous ani- 

 mals, far from being his rivals, are hardly worthy to 

 be his providers. The lions of America (if, indeed, 

 they deserve to be called lions) are, like the climate 



