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CARNIVORA 



longer fur, this giving the animal the appearance of mui'e robust 

 legs and less tapering tail. The skull and teeth differ only in 

 the greater average size of fully adult individuals, a character 



Fig. 98. 

 Pelis silvestris (upper figure) and /'. cattis (lower figure). Ka.t. size. 



most readily appreciable in the teeth. In twenty European 

 specimens of Felis silvestris and a like number of F. cafus the 

 extremes for certain dental measurements are as follows : — 



Combined length of upper carnassial silvestris. catus. 



a,ndp7n^ 16-6 to 20-0 .. 15-0tol7-8 



Combined length of lower cheek-teeth 18-8 ,, 23-6 .. 18-0 ,, 20-4 



Lowermolar 7-8 ,, 100 .. 6-6,, 8-6 



Felis silvestris silvestris Schreber. 



1758. [Felis] catus Linnseus, Syst. Nat., i, 10th ed., p. 42 (part; synonyms 



only, the description refers to the domestic cat). 

 1777. Felis {Catus) silvestris Schreber, Siiugthiere, in, p. 397. 

 1777. \_Felis catus] ferus Erxleben, Syst. Regni Anim., i, p. 518. 

 1857. Felis catus Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 162 (Not of 



Linnseus). 

 1896. Catus ferox Marfcorelli, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat., Milano, xxxv, p. 253, 



January, 1896 (Accidental renaming of Catus ferns Brehm, Illustr. 



Thierleben, i, p. 275, 1863). 

 1907. Felis sylvcstris Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, p. 150, June 12, 



1907. 

 1910. Felis silvestris Trouessart, Faune IMamm. d'Europe, p. 98. 



Tyjje locality. — Germany. 

 Geographical distrihution.- 



-Central and southern continental 



