. A history of British fossil mammals, and birds . Mouth of the cave at Kirkdale. FELIS SPEL^A. 161 CARNIVORA. FELIDJE. Fig. i nat. size. Kents Hole. FELTS SPEL.^::A. Great Cave Tiger. Lioiu and Rosenmuller, Beschreib- ung der Zoolithen in den Gailen ren-ter dii, genre du Tigre ou du Lion., CuviER, Annales dii Museum, ix. 1806, p. , Reliquiffi Diluviana;, pp. 17, 72, FUSS, Die Umgebungen von Mug- gendorf, , Ossem. Foss. Ed. 1823. iv. p. , Report of British Association,1842. Fossil animal of the Tiger-Mnd.,Felis spelaa, Felis sp
. A history of British fossil mammals, and birds . Mouth of the cave at Kirkdale. FELIS SPEL^A. 161 CARNIVORA. FELIDJE. Fig. i nat. size. Kents Hole. FELTS SPEL.^::A. Great Cave Tiger. Lioiu and Rosenmuller, Beschreib- ung der Zoolithen in den Gailen ren-ter dii, genre du Tigre ou du Lion., CuviER, Annales dii Museum, ix. 1806, p. , Reliquiffi Diluviana;, pp. 17, 72, FUSS, Die Umgebungen von Mug- gendorf, , Ossem. Foss. Ed. 1823. iv. p. , Report of British Association,1842. Fossil animal of the Tiger-Mnd.,Felis spelaa, Felis speltEa, It is too commonly supposed that the Lion, the Tiger,and the Jaguar are animals peculiarly adapted to a tropicalclimate. The genus Felis is, hoAvever, represented by M 162 FELID^. species in high northern latitudes,* and in all the inter-mediate countries to the equator; and there is no genus ofMammalia in which the unity of organization is more closelymaintained, and in which, therefore, we find so little groundin the structure of a sjiecies, though it may most abound atthe jDresent day in the tropics, for inferring
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