_Six-banded_ 205 _Eight-banded_ 207 _Nine-banded_ 208 _Twelve-banded_ 210 _Eighteen-banded_ 212 _The Paca_ 222 _The Opossum_ 229 _The Marmose_ 251 _The Cayopollin_ 253 _The Elephant_ 255 _The Rhinoceros_ 322 _Directions for placing the Plates in the Seventh Volume._ Page 57 Fig. 101, 102. 68 Fig. 107, 108. 77 Fig. 103, 104. 85 Fig. 105, 106. 117 Fig. 109, 110. 118 Fig. 111, 112, 113. 133 Fig. 114, 115, 116. 150 Fig. 117, 118, 119. 165 Fig. 120, 121, 122, 123. 181 Fig. 124, 125, 126. 205 Fig. 127, 128. 222 Fig. 129, 130, 131, 132. 236 Fig. 133, 134. BUFFON'S NATURAL HISTORY. _OF CARNIVOROUS ANIMALS._ OF TIGERS. As the word Tiger is a generic name, given several animals of different species, it is proper to begin with distinguishing them from each other. Leopards and Panthers have often been confounded together, and are called Tigers by most travellers. The Ounce, a small species of Panther, which is easily tamed, and used by the Orientals in the chace, has been taken for the Panther itself, and described as such by the name of Tiger. The Lynx, and that called the Lion's provider, have also sometimes received the name of Panther, and sometimes Ounce. In Africa, and in the southern parts of Asia, these animals are common; but the real tiger, and the only one which ought to be so called, is scarce, was little known by the ancients, and is badly described by the moderns. Aristotle does not mention him; and Pliny merely speaks of him as an animal of prodigious velocity; _tremendæ velocitatis animal_;[A] adding, that he was a much more scarce animal than the Panther, since Augustus presented the first to the Romans at the dedication of the theatre of Marcellus, while so early as the time of Scaurus, this Ædile sent 150 panthers, and afterwards 400 were given by Pompey, and 420 by Augustus, to the public shews at Rome. Pliny, however, gives no description of the tiger, or any of its characteristics. Oppian and Solinus appear to be the first who observed that the tiger is marked with long streaks, and the panther with round spots. This, indeed, is one of the characteristics which distinguishes the true tiger from a number of animals that have been so called. Strabo, in speaking of the real tiger, gives Megasthenes as his authority, for saying that in India there are tigers twice as large as the lion. The tiger then