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of the whole body is of a tawny yellowifh colour; it is not very long, except on the 
mane, where it is compofed of hairs of a very different length, form, and ftrudture 5 
the tail is long, thick, and floccofe. 
The lionefs is, in all refpe&s, like the lion, except in that fhe has no mane ; but 
this makes fo great a difference in her appearance, that fhe feems a creature of ano¬ 
ther genus. 
The lion is a native of many parts of Alia and Africa. It will live to a great age 
in Europe, and fometimes breeds with us, but is no where wild in this part of the 
world. All the writers on quadrupeds defcribe it under the name of Leo, and the 
female under that of Leasna. 
Felts cauda elongata , maculis virgatis. 
The Fells, with an elongated tail\ and virgatedfpots. 
The tyger is a very large and terrible animal; it’s fiercenefs is greater than that of 
the lion, nor does any living creature efcape it’s attacks. At it’s full growth it is of the 
bignefs of a fmall heifer, and, though the body is lefs bulky, the legs are greatly thick¬ 
er than in that animal: the head is large ; the eyes are very large, and of a fierce and 
terrible afpedt; the mouth is very large, and the teeth enormoufly long : the neck is 
very thick, the fhoulders large, and the legs of a monftrous thicknefs; yet this is prin¬ 
cipally owing to the vaftnefs of the bones, for they are covered with very little flefh : 
the loins are weak, in proportion to the reft of the body, and the hinder legs have 
lefs appearance of ftrength than the fore-ones: the tail is thick and long, but is not floc¬ 
cofe as the lion’s. 
The ground colour of the tyger is a pale tawny, with an admixture of brown, but 
is all over variegated with ftreaks of black; thefe are long, and considerably broad, 
and go the crofs-way of the body. 
The tyger is a native of Afia, and alfo of many parts of America. The antients 
have fpoke greatly of it’s fwiftnefs, but this is not to be underftood of it’s running, for 
in that it is inferior in fpeed to moft of the beafts of prey, but of it’s leaping. It fel- 
dom purfues any thing in a fair chace. It’s cuftom is to lie in wait, and it will throw 
itfelf forward out of thefe lurking-places with a furprifing violence and rapidity ; if it 
miffes the prey in the leap, it very often does not turn againft it, but walks away. All 
the writers on quadrupeds have defcribed this under the name of Tigris, 
Fells cauda elongata , maculis fuperioribus orbiculatis , 
inferioribus virgatis, 
The long-tailed Felis, with the upper fpots round , and 
the lower virgated. 
This is a very beautiful animal, and, though lefs terrible in appearance than the 
lion or tyger, is not lefs fierce or .voracious; it is confiderably fmaller than the tyger, 
and it’s body is lefs bulky ; but the limbs are furprifingly ftrong, and the creature is 
very active. 
The head is large and flefhy; the eyes are fierce and large ; the mouth wide, and 
is furnifhed with a terrible apparatus of teeth : the neck is longer, and lefs thick than 
in the lion or tyger, and the body is alfo fmaller, but there is an appearance of great 
ftrength about the fhoulders : the claws are of a terrible length, and are formed ex¬ 
actly as fhofe of the cat: the tail is long, thick, and variegated in the fame manner 
as the body. 
The ground colour of the animal is a deep fallow or tawny brown ; the back and 
upper part of the fides are variegated with round fpots of a deep and glofty black; the 
lower 
