Compared with Felis Nebuhsa. 551 



communication. On its first arrival, and for about ten days, the 

 animal was shy, and shewed considerable symptoms of ferocity. 

 One of its attitudes is exhibited in the figure, which is taken from 

 a drawing made by William Daniel!, Esq. R. A. a few days after 

 it had been placed there. This indicates more wildness of aspect 

 than it afterwards exhibited. The strangeness of its situation, the 

 noises which it heard in the menagerie, the novelty of the scenes 

 around it, as well as of the attendants, doubtless influenced its 

 manners, alarmed it, and in some degree caused it to resume its 

 natural fierceness, which had previously been subdued by kind 

 treatment. But after eight or ten days' confinement, the animal 

 became mild and tractable: it now allowed itself to be caressed, 

 and soon became perfectly familiar, and fond of the company of 

 the persons employed in the menagerie. It was very playful, and 

 rolled itself about when it was noticed and caressed. Our animal, 

 while it continued at Exeter-Change, appeared rather less vo- 

 racious than a Leopard ; it was fed with beef and the heads of 

 fowls. 



In giving an account of the Rimau-Dahan, I have been led to 

 the examination of a species of Felis, recently made known by 

 E. Griffith, Esq. in his " Description of Vertebrated Animals " 

 It here has the name of Felis Nebulosa, the Chinese or Tortoise^ 

 shell Tiger; in the translation of the Regne Animal of Baron 

 Cuvier, in which Mr. G. is at present engaged, he has preferred 

 the English name of Clouded Tiger. The Felis Nebulosa, Gr., 

 in the work first mentioned, is described as equal to the Bengal 

 Tiger in the bulk of his body and size of his head. Two separate 

 figures are given by the same author in the works above cited, 

 the first of which was drawn by Ilowitt. The Felis Nebulosa 

 was said to have been brought from Canton, but Mr. Griffith 

 regrets that the animal was not described during life. After a 

 careful consideration of both the figures, and of the description 

 given by Mr. Griffith of the Felis Nebulosa, and after numerous 

 and repeated comparisons of these with the specimen, it has 

 appeared to me, that no small degree of doubt remains, whether 

 the animal figured by Mr. G. and the Rimau-Dahan, be the 

 same ; and it would therefore, in my opinion, not be consistent 



