XVI 



CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XU— continued. 



SECT. 



PAGE 



the Bay Cat, the Fishing Cat, 

 the Leopard-cat, the Wagati 

 and the Marbled Tiger-cat . 398 



7. The Serval, the Golden-haired 



Cat, the Grey African Cat, and 



the Servaline Cat . . . 406 



8. The Ocelot, the Margay, Geof- 



froy's Cat, the Ocelot-like 

 Cat, the Yaguarondi, the Eyra 

 and the Colocollo . . . 408 



9. The Rusty-spotted Cat, the Chi- 



nese Cat, the iSmall Cat, Jer- 

 dou's Cat, the Java Cat, the 

 hushy-tailed-red-spotted Cat, 

 the Small -eared Cat, the 

 Large-eared Cat, the Flat- 

 headed Cat and the Boraean 



Bay Cat 413 



10. The Egjrptian Cat, the Common 

 Wild Cat, the Indian Wild 



SECT. 



Cat, the Common Jungle Cat, 

 the Ornate Jungle Cat, the 

 Steppe Cat, Shaw's Cat, the 

 Manul and the Pampas Cat . 



The Northern Lynx, the Pardine 

 Lynx, the Thibet Lynx and 

 the Caracal .... 



The Common Cheetah and the 

 Woolly Cheetah . . . 



Review of living Cats 



Extinct Cats . . . . 



Machjei'odus .... 



16. Hoplophoneus and Pseudoslurus 



1 7. Nimravus and Dinictis . . 

 Archselurus .... 

 Pogonodon and Eusmilus 

 Fossils of uncertain nature, 



and summary of fossil cat 



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 19. 



20. 



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CHAPTER XIII. 



THE cat's PLACE IN NATURE. 



SECT. PACE 



1. What is needed to be known in 



order to answer the question 



" What is a Cat ? " . . . 440 



2. The Cat's most general mor- 



phological and physiological 

 characters . . . .440 



3. Tliese distinguish it from all 



non-living beings . . . 441 



4. An objection considered . . 442 



5. The cliaracter of the Cat as a 



living being . . . 445 



C. What is implied in saying "the 



Cat is an animal " . . 445 



7. The principles of zoological 



classification . . . . 449 



8. The various sub-kingdoms of 



animals .... 450 



9. The character of the Cat as a 



backboned animal . . . 454 



10. The iirovinccs and classes of 



backboned animals — espe- 

 cially the class of fishes . 455 



11. The characters by which tlie Cat 



differs from all fishes . . 458 



12. The class Batrachia of the pro- 



vince Branchiata . . . 459 



13. The characters by which the Cat 



differs from all Batrachians 

 and from all Branchiata . . 460 



SECT. PACE 



14. The class Reptilia of the pro- 



vince Monocondyla . .461 



15. The characters by which the Cat 



differs from all Reptilia . . 462 



16. The class A ves or Birds . . 462 



17. The characters by which the Cat 



differs from all birds, from all 

 Monocondyla, and from all 

 non-mammalian Vertebratii . 465 



18. The sub-classes and orders of 



the class Mammalia . , 466 



19. The characters by which the Cat 



differs from the sub-classes 

 of Mammalia to which it does 

 not belong .... 469 



20. The characters by which the Cat's 



order differs from the other 

 orders of placental mammals 471 



21. The sub-orders and families of 



Carnivora . . . . 474 



22. The characters of the Cat's sub- 



order itiluroidea . . .475 



23. The families of the Cat's sub- 



order ..... 481 



24. The peculiarities of the Cat's own 



family— Fclidaj . . . 486. 



25. Position of the genus, Fells, and 



the Cat's place amongst all 

 other creatures . . . 489 



