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distant as to be inserted in zoological catalogues as spe- 

 cifically different, which have reproduced, and in the in- 

 stance we are more particularly about to notice, of a 

 breed between two decidedly different species, the Lion and 

 the Tiger. 



Mr. Cross, at Exeter 'Change during the few years he 

 has possessed that establishment, has bred twenty-one 

 Lions, six Tigers, four Jaguars, and four Leopards. In the 

 French menagerie they do not appear to have been so suc- 

 cessful, though M. F. Cuvier gives us the particulars of 

 some young Lions bred there with his usual interesting 

 detail. 



In addition to the instances already enumerated at Exeter 

 'Change, Mr. Cross has succeeded twice in producing a 

 cross breed among these animals. These were between the 

 Black Leopard, generally treated as a distinct species, and 

 the common African Leopard. The male was the black 

 variety. Three or four individuals of this breed are still 

 exhibiting about the country. 



The offspring of varieties are generally observed to par- 

 take of a middle character, as (if we may be allowed to in- 

 stance them here) in the human species. The Negro and 

 the European produce an offspring as certainly partaking 

 of the physical character of both as does the issue of pa- 

 rents both of the same colour. If the offspring of these 

 two varieties breed with either the black or the white, the 

 product will still be certain, and will partake in its physical 

 appearances and colour the same proportions of which it 

 actually partakes in blood ; and again, if the offspring of 

 the black and white continue to be united in succession to 

 either pure black or pure white, it is not until after the 

 fourth generation that the traces of the intermixture will 

 be lost, as is evinced constantly in our West India settle- 

 ments. 



And so it is with the lower Mammalia. If a thorough 



