5'jCLis Tigris* 
\ With elongated tail \ and body marked 
£ with long transverse streaks . 
Its colour is a deep tawny or orange yellow ; the face, 
throat,, and under side of the belly being nearly white ; 
the whole is traversed by numerous long black stripes, 
forming a bold and striking contrast with the ground 
colour. About the face and breast, the stripes are pro- 
portionably smaller than on other parts ; the tail is an- 
nulated with black, and is shorter than the body ; the 
proportion and number of the stripes, and the more or 
less brightness of the ground colour, varies in different in- 
dividuals. The skin is held in high esteem in all the 
eastern countries, and particularly in China, where the 
Mandarins cover their seats of justice with it. The dis- 
position of the Tiger is fierce and sanguinary, his rapa- 
city so greatly exceeds that of every other animal, that he 
is considered as the most dreadful scourge of the hotter 
regions of Asia ; even \vhen in a state of confinement, he 
occasionally exhibits marks of his natural malignity* 
His method of seizing his prey, is by concealing him- 
self from view, and springing upon his victim with a 
roar hideous beyond conception, and tears it to pieces } 
he commits horrid ravages among the flocks and herds/ 
