or JRed Particles of the Mammiferous Animals. Ill 



l-4500tb, l-4572nd, and l-48()0th. Extreme diameters, 

 1 -6000th and l-4000th. In the serum, a great many of the 

 disks l-6000th to l-5333rd of an inch. Blood from a vein 

 of the fore foot. 



92. Wolf, {Canis Lupus,) adult male. l-3554th, l-3635th, 

 1 -3692nd, all very frequent diameters. Extreme sizes 1 -4570th 

 and 1- 3000th. Blood from a prick of the ear. 



93. Jackal, (Caw/s ??2£'50?;2e/QS,) adult female. The following 

 diameters very common : l-3552nd, l-3600th, l-3693rd, 

 1 -3790th. Extreme sizes l-4'570th, l-3000th. Blood from 

 a prick of the ear. 



94. Two Spotted Paradoxure, {Paradoxurus hinotatus,) 

 a female nearly full-grown, from Western Africa. The follow- 

 ing sizes frequent: l-4572nd, l-4800th, and l-5052nd of an 

 inch. Extreme diameters l-6000th and l-3555th. Blood 

 from a prick of the tail. 



95. Striped Hyeena, {Hyccna vidgaris,) female not quite 

 full-grown. l-4000th, l-3764th and l-3552nd, common dia- 

 meters. Extreme sizes l-4800th and l-3000th. Blood from 

 a vein of the ear. 



96. Lion, [Felis Leo,) from Africa, nearly full-grown. The 

 most common diameters l-4500th and l-4365th of an inch. 

 Extreme sizes l-5800th and l-3554th. Blood from a prick 

 of the ear. 



a. Lioness, about two-thirds grown. Some corpuscles ob- 

 tained from the cutaneous vessels of the leg gave the same 

 measurements. 



97. Puma or Silver Lion, {Felts concolor,) from South Ame- 

 rica, full-grown male, l-4572nd, 1 -4500th and 1 -4440th, the 

 most frequent diameters of the disks. Extreme sizes l-5S00th 

 and l-3554th. Blood from a prick of the ear. 



98. Tiger, {Felis Tigris,) from India, a female, full-grown. 

 Common sizes l-4440th, l-4210th, and l~4268th. Several 

 also of l-4000th. Extreme diameters l-5333rd and l-3428th 

 of an inch. Blood from a vein of the ear. 



The size therefore of the blood corpuscles of these larger 

 species of the genus Felis is very nearly alike*. In some of the 

 smaller species, as the Cat (27.), Serval (28.), and Lynx 

 (30.), the disks have much the same diameter, as I infer from 

 frequent examinations. Mr. Siddall too, before he was ac- 

 quainted with the result of my observations, came to the same 

 conclusion, from several trials with the blood of the cat, as 

 compared with one specimen of that of the tiger. In some 

 blood obtained during life from the femoral vein and from the 

 femoral artery of a cat, about a third-grown, the disks most 



* See Dublin Medical Press, No. 53. 



