mammalia. FER/E. Fells; 47 
dogs; urines backwards ; wbcn young is cafily tamed : roars 
bovvibly ; fleeps in the fun, eats every third'dav; lazy, flow; 
leaps upon its prey; breath fetid; fmell weak; its llelb is 
eaten by the Africans, 
Head large, rounded; forehead fquare; eyf.c very large ; lips 
pendulous; heart liirge; mate, a fourth part larger than the 
female, fometimes 8 feet long; cheji fliaggy; hues of tUchead 
and neck with a ycllcnvilb-brown mane about 2 feet long; 
tail bufliy at the extremity. 
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Body -with dark long ftreaks. Tiger i 
Inhabits tlie warmer parts of AJia^ China, Japan, and India : 
lives in w'oods and thickets, near rivers ; cunning, cruel, 
ftrung, of vaft Iwiftncfs; infelling and delolating man efpcci- 
ally in India; even wiieu tamed from the birth w'ill exercile 
his ferocity as fotm as liberated ; tile male deftroys his own 
progeny ; will even attack a lion ; bounds from arabulh upon 
its prey ; has fetid breath; the moft beautiful of wild liealls. 
Body Imooth, pale yellow with traiilverle black ftnpes: lenglk 
12 — 15 feet. 
Body upper parts marked with circular fpots, lower with 
flripqs. Panthers 
Inhabits Africa, and the hot parts of Afia : does not attack man 
unlefs provoked; enters houfes by night and dellroys cats; 
in its habits relembles the tiger. 
Coliur bright tawny; black ; dufky : length -j feet. 
Body whitilh,. with irregular black fpots. Ounces 
Inhabits the north of Africa, Fcrjia, and Hyrcania : lels and 
milder than the former, may' be tamed ajid trained to the chale ; 
length abouf3{- feet. 
^^°pardus 
Body yellow with black fpots, nearly contiguous. Leopard. 
Inhabits Africa ; hardly larger tkur the former, and liinilar in 
habits. 
Body yellowilli with black roundifh-angular fpots, yellow 
in the middle. Braftlian Tiger. 
Inhabits the whole' of South .America : in cruelly, but not hi 
coux'age, refembles the tiger, leaping from ambulh with three 
bounds upon its prey' ; fafliens upon the fhouldcrs of a hork, 
and carries away animals thrice its own fize ; having tailed 
human blood ever after prefers it ; eats even fifli, devouring 
crocodiles ; is driven away' by lire. 
Belly white with black fpots, and the legs with fmaller fpots ; 
tail half the length of the body, with long black fpots. 
Pardalis: 
