1 4^ MAMMALIA. FERiE. Cat. 



* With long tails, and plain earr. 



261 1. Lion. — 1. Felts Leo. 



Of a pale tawny colour. Schreber, iii, 376. tab. xcvii. A. B. 



, Liori, or Felis Leo, having a long tail bufhy at the end, and the breaft and neck covered with a 

 long fhaggy mane. Syft. nat. ed. vi. p. 4. n. 1. Briff. quad. 134. Gefner, 572. Aldrov. 2. Jonft. 

 quad. 72. Dodart, i. t. 1. and viLt. 7. Raj. quad. 162. — Lion. Sm. Buff. v. 64. pi. cvii. and cv iii. 

 Penn. hift. of quad. n. 151. — Anatomy. E.N. C. d. 1. a. 2. obf. 6. Bartholin, act. 1671. n. 17. 

 Nov. com. Petrop. 1 77 1 . tab. xvi. 



Inhabits Africa, efpecially its interior parts ; and is found, though not in fuch numbers, in the de- 

 ferts of Perfia, India, and Japan : In ancient times it was likewife to be met with in all the warm re- 

 gions of Alia, in Paleftine, Armenia, and Thrace. - This animal preys on horfes, and other large ani- 

 mals, and feldom attacks mankind, unlefs when urged by famine : It is afraid of flame, and may even 

 be kept in awe by means of dogs ; is fond of fleeping in the fun's heat ; of a lazy and thievifh difpo- 

 fition, and flow of foot, but catches its prey by leaping on it at unawares ; and ufually eats as much 

 at once as will ferve for three days ; it has a ftinking breath, and weak fenfe of fmelling ; when 

 young may be rendered tollerably tame : The general colour is a pale tawny yellow, though 

 fometimes of a darker hue ; the head is large, and of a rounded form, with a fquared fore-head, and 

 large eyes; the lips are pendulous at the fides of the mouth ; the heart is faid to be very large : The 

 maie is near a third part larger than the female, and is fometimes eight feet long, from the end of 

 the muzzle to the origin of the tail; his breaft is covered with rough hair ; and the head and fides 

 of the neck are furnifhed with a flowing yellowiih brown mane, the hair of which is about two feet 

 long, the reft of the body is covered with fmooth fliort hair, and the tail is a little bufhy at the ex- 

 tremity. The female is confiderably lefs than the male, and is entirely fmooth in the fur. The 

 voice of the Lion, when irritated, is a horrible roar, proceeding from the wind-pipe being compofed 

 of entire cartilaginous rings, which overlap each other like tiles. The flefh of Lions is eaten by 

 fome inhabitants of Africa. 



262 2. Tiger. — 2. Felis Tigris. 2. 



The body is marked with long dark coloured (freaks. Schreber, iii. 381. tab. xcviii. 



Felis tigris. Briff. quad. 195. Ludolf. hift. ^Ethiop. 151. Gefn. quad. 936. Aldrov. dig. 101. 

 Jonlt. quad. 84. t. 54. Bont. Jav. 53. — Tiger. Sm. Buff. v. 153. pi. cix. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 

 152.— Anatomy of the Tiger, E. N. C. d. 1. a. 2. obf. 7. and a. 9. obf. 194. S. G. Gmelin, it. 

 Ruff. iii. 483. 



Inhabits the hotter regions of Afia, as far as China and Japan; is likewife found on Mount Ararat, 

 in Chinefe Tartary, about lake Aral, and in the Altaic mountains ; but is largeft and fierceft in In- 

 dia, efpecially Bengal, and the Indian iflands. — This animal lives in woods and thickets, moftlv by 

 the fides of rivers; is exceedingly cunning, very cruel, immenfely ftrong, and of vail fwiftnefs: It is 

 the greateft enemy of man, even laying whole diftrifts wafte, efpecially in India. Though tarriea al- 

 moft from the birth, it will evince its native ferocity, and efcape from its chains as foon as an oppor- 

 tunity oflers. The Tiger is almoft as large as the Lion, and, like him, has a foetid breath. The 



male 



