. The cat; an introduction to the study of backboned animals, especially mammals. Cats; Anatomy, Comparative. 398 THE CAT. [chap. XII. The jaguar is a very fierce animal, and often destroys men and women. Its favourite haunts are the wooded banks of rivers, and its habitual food is the giant rodent—the capybara. This great cat ranges from the Eed Paver, Louisiana, and the Rio Bravo, Texas, down to the most northern parts of Patagonia, , to 40° south latitude. (7.) The Clouded Tiger (Felis macrocelis).* § 6. This very handsome and interesting animal—the last of the series of very large cats
. The cat; an introduction to the study of backboned animals, especially mammals. Cats; Anatomy, Comparative. 398 THE CAT. [chap. XII. The jaguar is a very fierce animal, and often destroys men and women. Its favourite haunts are the wooded banks of rivers, and its habitual food is the giant rodent—the capybara. This great cat ranges from the Eed Paver, Louisiana, and the Rio Bravo, Texas, down to the most northern parts of Patagonia, , to 40° south latitude. (7.) The Clouded Tiger (Felis macrocelis).* § 6. This very handsome and interesting animal—the last of the series of very large cats—has a coat, the ground colour of which is. Fig. 108.—The Clouded Tiger {Fclit inacroccUs), a brownish groy, marked with stripes and spots of black, which form large and irregularly disposed patches. The under parts are, as usual, whitish. The cheeks and sides of the head arc marked with two parallel bands, one extending backwards from the eye to beneath the car, the other more or less parallel, and passing backwards from above the angle of the mouth. The animal is about forty-two inches long from snout to tail-end, * See Pro. Zool. Soc, 1S50, p. 102. It is described also ' Jcrdou in his Mammals of British Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mivart, St. George Jackson, 1827-1900. London, Murray
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