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Australia and New Zealand. In the coldest regions of the earth 

 they are represented by the bear, the seal, and the walrus, but it is 

 in the burning tropics that we find the grandest and most terrible 

 members of the order — the lion, the tiger, and other scarcely less 

 formidable princes of the forest and plain. 



The Cat Tribe. 



Of all the families that make up the order of carnivora that of 

 the Cats is by far the most important. The household puss herself 



Common Domestic Cat. (From a. Photograph by Thomas Fall.) 



is a very small and insignificant member of the cat tribe, which 

 includes the lion, the tiger, the leopard, the panther, the jaguar, 

 the puma, the lynx, and others. 



THE LION. 



The largest of all the cat tribe is the Lion. Although so big 

 and strong, the lion is similar in structure to our domestic cat. 

 And if we take a cat and examine her body very carefully, we 



