{22 FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS. 
sounds and analyzed their voices, the roar of the 
Lion is but a gigantic miau, bearing about the 
same proportion to that of a Cat as its stately 
and majestic form does to the smaller, softer, 
more peaceful aspect of the Cat. Yet, notwith- 
standing the difference in their size, who can look 
at the Lion, whether in his more sleepy mood, as 
he lies curled up in the corner of his cage, or in 
his fiercer moments of hunger or of rage, with- 
out being reminded of a Cat? And this is not 
merely the resemblance of one carnivorous ani- 
mal to another; for no one was ever reminded 
of a Dog or Wolf by a Lion. 
Again, all the Horses and Donkeys neigh; for 
the bray of the Donkey is only a harsher neigh, 
pitched on a different key, it is true, but a sound 
of the same character, — as the Donkey himself 
is but a clumsy and dwarfish Horse. All the 
Cows low, from the Buffalo roaming the prairie, 
the Musk-Ox of the Arctic ice-ficlds, or the Jack 
of Asia, to the Cattle fecding in our pastures. 
Among the Birds, this similarity of voice in 
Families is still more marked. We need only re- 
call the harsh and noisy Parrots, so similar in 
their peculiar utterance. Or take as an example 
the web-footed Family, — do not all the Geese and 
the innumerable host of Ducks quack? Does not 
every member of the Crow Family caw, whether 
it be the Jackdaw, the Jay, or the Magpie, the Rook 
