Note 122 — Chapter IX

The striped tyger is properly the real tyger (Felis Tigris L.). The Puli is not the Kuguar, which is a ravenous animal in South America of the cat species, but the real Leopard (Felis Leopardus L.). The third kind, of a chestnut colour, and striped also, seems to be a species not yet known to zoologists, and very inaccurately defined. The fourth kind, of a white colour, with black spots, (Felis Uncia L.) is represented by Schreber in Tab. C.—The animals of the cat genus, both of the old and new world, are in general not yet defined and described with so much accuracy as might have been expected from the progress lately made in zoology. The Europeans, whom avarice induces to visit India, being engaged in trade or war, have neither time nor inclination for the study of natural history, which in the end would be productive of riches were it sufficiently cultivated. F.