eae 
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THE JAGUAR. 
Fecis Onca. Lryn. 
Ir can searcely fail to have been remarked by those who 
have perused the preceding pages with moderate atten- 
tion that the species of cats described in them, including 
the largest and most formidable of the whole genus, are 
exclusively natives of the Old World, and confined to 
the hot and burning climates of Southern Asia and of 
Africa. A second and more numerous class, of which, 
however, no example exists at present in the Tower 
Menagerie, and which, consequently, it does not fall 
within our province to illustrate, occupy the colder and 
northern regions of both hemispheres. These belong 
principally to the same subdivision with the Lynx 
