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F. cafra. (The Cat of Caffraria.) Stands high on its legs ; 

 grey, transversely striped with black. 



F. serval, Buff. XIII, xxxv. (The Serval.) Yellowish, with 

 irregular black spots. From Africa. 



F. jaguarondi, Azzara, Voy. pi. 9. (The Jaguarondi.) Body 

 long; and altogether of a blackish brown. From the forests of 

 South America. 



F. catus, L.; Buff. VI, i, et seq. (The Domestic Cat.) Is 

 originally from the forests of Europe. In its wild state, it is of 

 a greyish brown, with darker transverse undulations; below 

 pale ; the insides of the thighs and of all the feet, yellowish ; 

 three bands on the tail, its inferior third blackish. In a domes- 

 tic state it varies, as is well known, in colours, in the length and 

 fineness of the hair, but infinitely less so than the Dog ; it is 

 also much less submissive and aftectionate.(l) 



We might also place in a separate subgenus, a species whose 

 head is rounder and shorter, and whose nails are not retractile, 

 the Felis jubata, Schreb. 105, and better, Fel. guttata, Id. 105, 

 b, (The Hunting Leopard) which is the size of the Leopard, 

 but longer bodied, and stands higher ; the tail long, annulated 

 at the end ; the fur fawn colour, mottled with small uniform 

 black spots, a black streak reaching from the eye to the angle 

 of the mouth. The disposition of this animal differs from that 

 of the remainder of the genus in being extremely mild and do- 

 cile. The 



AMPHIBIA 



Will form the third and last of the small tribes into which 

 we divide the Carnivora. Their feet are so short and so en- 

 veloped in the skin, that the only service they can render 

 them on land, is to enable them to crawl ; but as the inter- 

 vals of the fingers are occupied by membranes, they are ex- 

 cellent oars ; and in fact, these animals pass the greater portion 

 of their time in the water ; never landing, except for the pur- 

 pose of basking in the sun, and suckling their young. Their 



(1) The species, more or less allied to the Cat, are very numerous in the two 

 continents ; but all those that are given in catalogues arc very far from being au- 

 tlientic, and sufficiently distinguished from each other. We may, however, con- 

 sider as such, those of v/hich we have good figures. The Margay, Buff. ; Felis 

 tigrina, Gm., Buff. XIII ; Schreb. 106. Fel. macroura, Pr. Max., Brazil, pi. xi. 

 Felis sumair ana y IIorsR Fcl.javaneusis, Id. Fel. iorqnata, Fred. Guv. Fel. colo- 

 colo, Fred. Guv. Mammif., &c. 



