The Natural History of the Felinæ: Illustrated by Thirty-eight [i.e. 37] Plates, Coloured, and Numerous Wood-cuts, with a Memoir of CuvierW.H. Lizars, 1834 - 3 من الصفحات |
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Africa African lion animal appear approach Asiatic lion attack Azara bands Baron Cuvier beasts beautiful belly Bengal Cat body boor brown Buffon bush cage Canada Lynx Caracal characters claws COLOCOLO commenced confined Cuvier dark dogs ears elephant exhibited eyes fawn colour feet Felinæ Felis fired foot fore forehead genus greater number grey Griffith's ground colour hair head horse hunting inches India Inhabits irregular jaguar jungle keeper legs length lengthened Leopard limbs Linnæus lion lioness Lizars sc Lynx mahout male mane marked Menagerie Monographies Montbéliard Museum naturalists nearly neck ocelot pale paler panther papillæ Paraguay PLATE prey puma quadrupeds reddish-brown rings seize serval shade shew shot shoulders side Sir Stamford Raffles skin slender species specimen streaks strength tail tawny teeth Temminck thick throat tiger tion transverse tree tufts upper variety wild young Zoological
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الصفحة 103 - ... turned calmly away, and driving the snarling dogs like rats from among his heels, bounded over the adjoining thicket like a cat over a footstool, clearing brakes and bushes twelve or fifteen feet high, as readily as if they had been tufts of grass, and abandoning the jungle, retreated towards the mountains. After ascertaining the state of our rescued comrade (who fortunately had sustained no other injury than a slight scratch on the back, and a severe bruise in the ribs, from the force with which...
الصفحة 83 - Hocks elsewhere, and considers himself entirely dispossessed of his lands until heavy rains fall. Every attempt to save the cultivated fields, if they be not enclosed by high and thick hedges, proves abortive. Heaps of dry manure (the fuel of the Sneeuwbergen and other parts) are placed close to each other round the fields...
الصفحة 100 - The first point was to track the lion to his covert. This was effected by a few of the Hottentots on foot : commencing from the spot where the horse was killed, they followed the spoor...
الصفحة 101 - If they continue to wound him ineffectually till he waxes furious and desperate, or if the horses, startled by his terrific roar, grow frantic with terror and burst loose, the business becomes rather serious, and may end in mischief, especially if all the party are not men of courage, coolness, and experience.
الصفحة 169 - Change, to be taken care of, till she herself went to Oatlands. He remained there for some weeks, and was suffered to roam about the greater part of the day without any restraint. On the morning previous to the Duchess's...
الصفحة 162 - ... occasionally letting him loose when eating was going forward, when he would sit by his master's side, and receive his share with comparative gentleness. Once or twice he purloined a fowl, but easily gave it up to Mr.
الصفحة 149 - The second barrel too of the gun, which I still retained in my hand, went off in the scuffle, the ball passing close to the mahout's ear, whose situation, poor fellow, was anything but enviable. As soon as my elephant was prevailed upon to leave the killing part of the business to the sportsmen, they gave the roughly used Tiger the coup-de-grace. It was a very fine female, with the most beautiful skin I ever saw.
الصفحة 102 - I ever witnessed. The danger of our friends however rendered it at the moment too terrible to enjoy either the grand or the ludicrous part of the picture. We expected every instant to see one or more of them torn in pieces ; nor, though the rest of the party were standing within fifty paces, with their guns cocked and levelled, durst we fire for their assistance. One was lying under the lion's feet, and the others scrambling towards us in such a way as to intercept our aim upon the animal.
الصفحة 110 - ... though not so large or swift an animal as the tiger, was generally stronger and more courageous. Those which have been killed in India, instead of running away when pursued through a jungle, seldom seem to think its cover necessary at all. When they see their enemies approaching, they spring out to meet them, open-mouthed, in the plain, like the boldest of all animals, a mastiff dog. They are thus generally shot with very little trouble ; but if they are missed, or only slightly wounded, they...
الصفحة 91 - ... which he stood fixed, he merely moved his paw, and at the next instant I beheld two lying dead. In doing this, he made so little exertion that it was scarcely perceptible by what means they had been killed. Of the time which we...