So WILDCAT. Class I. 



VIII. CAT. Six cutting teeth and two canine in each jaw. 

 Five toes before ; four behind. 

 Sharp hooked claws, lodged in a Iheath, that may 



be exerted at plcafure. 

 Round head : fhort vifage : rough tongue. 



12. Wild. Felis pilis ex fufco flavicante, Morton Nonhampt, ^^i. 



et albido variegatis veiHta, Gefner quad. 325. 



Cauda annulis alternatim ni- Catus iylveftris ferus vel fe- 



gris et ex Ibrdide albo liavi- ralis eques arborum, Klein 



cantibus cinfta. BriJJhi quad. quad. 75. 



»92. Br. Zool. 22. Syn. quad, 



De Bujon, Tom. \i. 20. Tab 1. No. 133. 



Brit. Cath goed Germ. Wilde katze, Boumritter 



Fren. Le Chat Sauvage Dan. Vild kat 

 Span. Gato Montis 



THIS animal does not differ fpecifically from 

 the tame cat ; the latter being originally of 

 the fame kind, but altered in color, and in fome 

 other trifling accidents, as are common to animals 

 reclamed from the woods and domefticated. 



The cat in its favage flate is three or four times 

 as large as the houfe-cat; the head larger, and 

 the face flatter. The teeth and claws, tremen- 

 dous : its mufcles very fl:rong, as being formed 

 for rapine : the tail is of a moderate length, but 



very 



