Archive image from page 108 of Cuvier's animal kingdom arranged. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization cuviersanimalkin00cuvi Year: 1840 CARNARIA. 97 Fig. 36.—Toe Puma domestic, named i?. Temminckii: F. p?a«Jc<?p« the last, but is smaller, with some markings on the head, and is remarkable for its complete bony orbits.] -—- - -'— ''Si We m.'ht place as a separate subgenus [Cy- naihtrus, Blainv. ? ] a species which has the head rounder and shorter, and the talons of which are not retractile [a statement which is unwar- ranted by fact], the Chetah
Archive image from page 108 of Cuvier's animal kingdom arranged. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization cuviersanimalkin00cuvi Year: 1840 CARNARIA. 97 Fig. 36.—Toe Puma domestic, named i?. Temminckii: F. p?a«Jc<?p« the last, but is smaller, with some markings on the head, and is remarkable for its complete bony orbits.] -—- - -'— ''Si We m.'ht place as a separate subgenus [Cy- naihtrus, Blainv. ? ] a species which has the head rounder and shorter, and the talons of which are not retractile [a statement which is unwar- ranted by fact], the Chetah, or Hunting Leo- pard (F. Jubata, Schreb.) : size of a Leopard, but longer-bodied, and stands higher ; of a pale fulvous, with tolerably uniform small black spots, a black streak reaching from the eye to the angle of the mouth, and tail annulated at the end. -_ Tlie disposition of this animal is mild and docile. [From Asia and Africa, but apparently not specifically the same on the two continents. The DiGiTiGRADA o Cuvier, exclu- - sive of the semi-plantigrade genera which _' have no cœcum, divide primarily into, j first, the Canine group, or the Dogs and - Foxes, which is the most distinctly se- I parated by anatomical characters ; the ~ remainder are all much more nearly al- lied, but we may venture to detach the Feline animals or Cats : the rest may all be included in the Viverrine section, to which the Hyaenas strictly appertain ; a varied, but quite natiu-al assemblage, ex- clusively confined in its distribution to the eastern continent, and scarcely extending beyond the tropics ; whereas the former groups are generally diffused, with the exception of Aus- tralia and the remote oceanic islands. Of the Viverrine animals, the most definitely cha- racterized subdivision is that of the Mangoustes and subordinate sections : the Genets scarcely differ from the Cats except in the prolongation of the muzzle ; and the Hyaena group is so nearly related to the Civets that i
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