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Updated: May 12, 2025
Thus the generic name given all members of the cat tribe being Felis, the name Felis leo designates the lion; Felis pardus, the leopard; Felis domestica, the house cat, and so on. This seems perfectly simple and natural now, but to understand how great a reform the binomial nomenclature introduced we have but to consult the work of Linnaeus's predecessors. A single illustration will suffice.
The Felis Leopardus and the Felis Pardus of authors, represent the Leopard and Panther; but it has been impossible to establish any characters which mark the difference between them. Size, colour, form, and position of spots have been resorted to, but age and locality have set all rules aside, and, therefore, in treating of them, I shall use the term indiscriminately.
It eats up a great many children, and would have destroyed the boy who afterward became the father of his country had he not driven it back with his hatchet. The first peculiarity of this Tigris regalis or Felis pardus, commonly called a lie, is its If it once get born, it lives on almost interminably.
Children would call the creature "a fib;" rough persons would term it "a whopper;" polite folks would say it was "a fabrication;" but plain and unscientific people would style it "a lie." Naturalists might assign it to the species "Tigris regalis," or "Felis pardus." We do not think that anatomical and zoological justice has been done to the lie. It is to be found in all zones.
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