THE ROYAL TIGER. 



Generic Characters. 

 Six. cutting, and two canine teeth in each jaw. 

 Five toes on the fore-feet, four on thofe behind. 



Claws lharp and hooked, lodged in a flieath, capable of being extended ot 



drawn in at pleafure. 

 Head round, vifage fhort, tongue rough. 



Synonims. 

 Felis Tigris, Linn. Syjl. 61. 

 Tiger, Pennant Syn. Quad. 121. 



Tigris, Plin. lib. viii. c. 18. Gefner Quad. 936. Rail Syn. Quad. l65. 

 Felis Flava, Brijfon Quad. 194. 

 Le Tigre, de Buffon 3 ix. 129. tab. ix. 



THE Royal Tiger is certainly the moll beautiful creature of the Cat kind ; 

 but, as if it were to mew the danger of attachment to beauty, merely for its 

 own fake, it is at the fame time the moil cruel, rapacious, and deftruciive 

 animal in the creation. 



The fize of the Royal Tiger is often fuperior to that of the Lion ; its ufual 

 length, when full grown, is about nine feet, and it frequently is four feet 

 ten inches in height ; notwithstanding which, it is poflelTed of as much agility 

 as the Cat, united with prodigious ftrength ; thus qualified, it is no wonder 

 that it carries dread and devaluation wherever it goes. The Tiger refembles 

 the Cat in its general form. Its colour is a full yellow, inclining to fawn 

 colour, which is deeper on the back, and becomes gradually lighter as it 

 approaches towards the belly, where it is white, as are alfo the throat and 

 the infide of the legs ; the whole body is beautifully marked with deep black 



