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uniformly yellow-brown short hair are the distin- 
guishing characteristics of the lion. In the young, how- 
ever, these characters are much less marked, and a closer 
approach is made to the other cats, for the mane is not 
developed until from the third to the sixth year, while 
the skin is distinctly barred or striped. The cross bars 
or stripes of the tiger are characteristic ; and the white 
spot or patch on the back of the ear recalls a correspond- 
ing feature in the Ocelot or Labba-tiger (Felis pardalis) 
of the colony. Modern observatio goes to prove that the 
tiger exceeds the lion in size, audacity and activity ; it 
is, however, somewhat more slender in build, and hence in- 
ferior in strength. The tiger frequents the jungles of the 
Asiatic continent, and the Malay Islands, especially in 
the neighbourhood of streams ; while the lion is specially 
characteristic of the African plains, ranging, however, 
to Arabia, Persia and India. The duration of life in 
both species seems to be from thirty to forty years. An 
accidental and misleading feature in the tige r exhibited 
is the presence of five small incisor teeth between the 
two immense canine teeth in the upper jaw ; there should 
be six incisor teeth, a number characteristic of the order 
Carnivora, or flesh-eaters, to which the various forms of 
cats, dogs and bears belong. 
On the railing, close to the lion and tiger cases, are 
shewn for comparison with the two largest of the 
Old World cats, two skins of the largest American cat, 
the Jaguar or colonial u Tiger" (Felis onca). No mounted 
specimen of this cat is to be found in the Museum, the 
skins hitherto obtainable being unsuitable for the purpose. 
The two specimens exhibited, both obtained in the 
Pomeroon district, contrast markedly with the lion and 
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