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near the cornea, and more especially at the insertions of the muscles. 

 The cornea is very thick. The tunica choroides has a pigmentum nigrum 

 both on the outside and on the inside : that on the inside lines the pro- 

 cessus ciliares and the iris, and is there thicker. It ends round the 

 optic nerve, but not equally as in the lion, racoon, &c. Then the 

 tunica albuginea begins, which is a little greenish round its edge, as if 

 the pigmentum nigrum was shaded into the white, and this point is 

 very smooth : that on the outside terminates about the ligamentum ciliare. 

 This is not smooth like the other, for, as the choroid is attached to the 

 sclerotic by a kind of cellular membrane, the pigmentum nigrum seems 

 to be mixed with it. The ligamentum ciliare is very broad and a little 

 way behind the cornea at the anterior part. The beginning of the iris 

 is some way from the selerotie, so that the ligament is of some length, 

 but becomes more closely attached backwards : the anterior part seems 

 to be made up of short strong fibres or strings, very close to one another, 

 just like the gelatinous fibres passing between the cutis and cuticle in 

 the sole of the foot. The iris is thicker than the choroid, and has no 

 point on the anterior part, and is of a yellow colour. The trochlearis 

 muscle is not so fixed to the upper part of the orbit as in the human ; 

 for the trochlearis is at some distance, and its origin is nearer the 

 bottom of the orbit than the insertion. 



I observed in a leopard, when it shut its eyelids, that the membrana 

 nictitans came about half-way over the eye. This I plainly saw when 

 it opened the lids 1 . 



[The Tiger (Felis Tigris, Linn.).] 

 Of the Bengal Tiger. 

 This animal is nearer to the Hon than the cat ; its legs are thick and 

 strong, like the lion's. The feet are broad and clumsy like those of the 

 lion. It is thinner in its body than the lion, or than even the leopard ; 

 but, like the cat, the os hyoides is attached to the head by the chain of 

 bones 2 . 



[The Chittah (Felis jubata, Schreb.).] 



Of the East Indian Hunting Tiger. 

 This animal is spotted. The hair is rougher, and not so sleek as in 



1 [The kidney of a leopard, with the veins injected, forms the Hunt. Prep. No. 1 202.] 



2 [In a tiger which the Editor dissected at the Zoological Gardens, he found the 

 hyoid attached by an elastic ligament about 3 inches long, and extensible to 5 

 inches : in fact very similar to that in the lion, only the ligament was not so long. 



Of the tiger Hunter preserved the following parts : — No. 1203, the kidney, with 

 the veins injected; No. 1284, a section of the suprarenal body; No. 1324, the brain; 

 No. 1966, a section of the lip, showing the roots of the whiskers; No. 2147, the anal 

 glands.] 



