SPOTTED AND STRIPED MAMMALS 



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parts of the same animal, very frequently show a tendency to 

 arrange themselves in either longitudinal or transverse orders^ and 

 often coalesce into stripes. When irregularly disposed rosettes 



Fig. 22.— Tiger skin, from a photograph by Messrs. Dixon and Son. 

 Sliin lent by Messrs. Jeffs and Harris. 



coalesce, they form the large patches of the Clouded Tiger (F. 

 diardi) of Elliot's monograph. 



What is still stranger is that the black rings of the rosettes 



