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as the 50th parallel (Pallas) ; and occurring 
westward so far as Ararat, and in Turkish 
Georgia, both W. and S. of the Caspian 
Sea (ancient Hyrcania) ; also round the 
Aral at all seasons ; and thence to the Altai, 
and banks of the Oby, in S. Siberia ; 
numerous in Mantchuria, and very destruc- 
tive in the vulley of the Amur ; again in 
China, at least to the southward (as near 
Amoy) ;* and abundant throughout the 
Indo-Chinese countries, Malayan peninsula, 
Sumatra, J ava, and Bali (but not Borneo). 
Tartary and China (Duhalde). Bokhara 
(Burnes). For the most part, much com- 
moner in its tropical haunts, f 
A. B. Adidt male and female, from the Barrack- 
pore menagerie (1844-6). C. Cub. Presented by 
the Curator. A. 1. Skeleton of A. Z>. Skeleton 
of cub. E. F, Skulls of males. H. Ditto of 
females. /. Humerus, radius, and ulna, of an 
enormous Tiger, the humerus exhibiting a repaired 
fracture. 
173 F. PARDUS, L. (F. Cuv. Mamm Litli. I, t. 51 ; 
Bennett's Tower Menagerie, t. ). 
Syn. F, leopardus^ L. - ' 
F. varia, Schreber. 
F, nimr, Ehrenberg. 
F. panthera, Pallas. 
* Vide J. A. S. 
f " Apparet interdum circa Dalai-noor at Argunum, sed datur in omni deserto 
inter Siberiam et CMnam atque Indiam, ut et in montibus Altaicis extra imperii 
fines sitis, circaque Araliensem lacum. Tybetani odore allii contriti, circa 
domicilia in sacculis suspensi ; contra Tygrides sese defendere dicuntur." Pallas, 
ZoograpJiia Rosso-Asiatica, p, 16. (Edit. 1831.) I have met with no recent 
accounts of this animal in Tibet proper. Baron PInraboldt notices that " Le 
Tigre royal, la meme espece qui habite les regions tropicales le I'lnde et de VIsle 
de Ceylan, parcourt dans I'Altai. II ne se montre pas soulement de nos jours 
dans les plains de la Dzoungarie, mais il avancc vers le nord, entre le Schlan- 
genbarg et la ville de Bamaoul jusqu'aux latitudes de Berlin et de Hamburg." 
(Asie Centrale I, 340, edit. 1843.) Nor would the size appear to be inferior to 
those of Bengal. {Vide Asie Gentrcde, III, 90.) I have reason to believe that 
the stature of the largest Tigers considerably exceeds that of the largest Lions ; 
and this opinion is confirmed by an experienced Lion-hunter in S. Africa, who 
assures me that he never saw a Lion-skull approaching in magnitude to the lar- 
gest Tiger-skulls in the Society's museum. 
