UNTIL within a few years past, very little has been known of the history and habits of the most notable members of the feline family. Every thing relating to the tiger — except as an animal killed in the chase, or as a captive — is still unreliable. The constant emigration of our adventurous citizens to the wilderness of our vast continent, has recently made us acquainted with the cougar — the largest of the cat-family known to America — while the prowess of Cumming has unfolded the haunts of the lion to the gaze of the civilized world. Speaking, therefore, with authority…