12 CARNIVOROUS QUADRUPEDS. 



No. X. 



The TIGRESS of BENGAL, which has been designed, as well as etched, by MR. THOMAS 

 LANDSEER, from that at the Exeter 'Change Menagerie, affords also a pertinent illustration of 

 the principles which MR. BELL had derived from combining study with dissection : theory with 

 practice. The " three muscles infixed in the eye-lids, which, drawing the eye-lids backward upon 

 the peculiarly prominent eye-ball, produce the fixed straining of the eye, and by stretching the 

 coats, give a greater brilliancy to the reflection," are here brought into action by a violent and 

 unexpected outrage done to the maternal feelings. Here too is exemplified the origin, insertion, 

 and physical use, of those snarling muscles, which are so properly named and defined by our 

 learned anatomist. We cannot but wish, however, that he had written also of those of the 

 lower jaw, which so powerfully conduce to this snarling and dreadful expression. 



The mother has arrived at a fortunate conjuncture for her cubs, which lie sleeping below, in a 

 small den or dark recess of the bank, whither a Serpent has stolen. Twisted among the jungle, 

 which affords an advantageous post both of attack and defence for the Serpent the Tigress has 

 reason to dread an enemy so powerful and insidious ; and, as in the preceding Engraving, both 

 parties are prepared for the encounter, and fully aware of the importance of a first blow. 



No. XI. 



THESE RAMPANT LIONS, bear the name of RUBENS as their author. SIR JOHN SEBRIGHT, 

 we believe, has the original picture. It would neither deteriorate from its intrinsic merit as a 

 work of art, nor from its nominal value (we suspect), should it turn out to be from the pencil of 

 SNYDERS ; or a performance of RUBENS and SNYDERS in conjunction. They not unfrequently 

 painted on the same canvas ; but the high reputation and rank of RUBENS, has in some measure 

 absorbed that of his coadjutor, except among first-rate connoisseurs whereas, in all that relates to 

 the details of Nature, SNYDERS was the superior painter of animals: and our reasons for 

 thinking that he had at least a hand in this picture of the rampant Lions, are, 1st, The superior 

 attention which is here paid to the details of Nature. Sndly, That the action of the nearest of the 

 two Lions, is precisely that of the same animal, in SNYDERS' very capital picture from the fable of 



