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blotches on each flank ; the Leopard of Africa and India, 

 similar in appearance to the Panther, but with ten rows of 

 smaller spots on the sides ; the Puma, which is found 

 from Canada to Patagonia, and which is larger than the 

 largest dogs, and whose color is pale brownish-yellow, 

 finely mottled by dark tips to the hairs ; and such also are 

 the Ocelot and Yaguarundi, cats found from Texas to South 

 America ; and such, of course, is the domestic cat, origi- 

 nally from the forests of the East, but now found all over 

 the world in company with man. All the true Cats be- 

 long to the genus Fells . 



The cats known as Lynxes have the tail very short, and 

 they have one molar less than the true cats, in each side of 

 the upper jaw. As examples of this kind, we may mention 

 the Canada Lynx, about forty inches in length, and of a 

 grayish hoary color waved with black, and the ears tipped 



FIG. 82. 



Canada Lynx, Lynx canadensis, Eafinesque. 



with a pencil of black hairs ; and the American 

 Cat (Lynx riifus\ which is about thirty inches long, and 

 of a pale rufous color overlaid with grayish, and whose 

 ear is black on the outside and has a white patch, and 

 whose tail has a black patch above at the end. 



