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** Poets are not alwayscorrect. Tigers have often been tamed, though 
they are not to be depended on.” 
Now we come to the true Lynxes, which are cats with very short 
tails, long limbs, tufted ears, the cheeks whiskered almost as long as 
Dundreary’s, and feet the pads of which are overgrown with hair. 
Some naturalists would separate them from the other cats, but the 
connection is supplied by the last species which, though possessing 
certain features of the lynx, yet interbreeds with the true cats. The 
lynx was well known to the ancients, and was one of the animals used 
in the arena from its savage disposition, and its sight was considered so 
piercing as to be able to penetrate even stone walls! There are no 
true lynxes in India proper; we must look to the colder Trans- 
Himalayan countries for them. The following is from Thibet :— 
No. 217. FELIS ISABELLINA. 
The Thibetan Lynx. 
Hapitat.—Thibet. 
Description.— Pale isabella-brown, with scarcely a trace of markings, 
butin some the spots come out even conspicuously in summer félage, 
especially on the limbs and belly, and the crown and middle of the back 
are generally more or less infuscated, occasionally very much so; in 
some the face is almost white, with traces of frontal streaks, and there is 
always (the same as in the European lynx) a short, narrow, dark streak 
on each side of the nose towards its tip.” —Bdytf. 
This species is similar in some respects to the European animal, but 
the principal difference lies in the feet, the pads of which in the 
Thibetan species are prominent and bare, with short, close fur between 
them, whereas in the European lynx the long fur completely conceals the 
pads, and the latter is the larger animal. There is a very good 
photograph of / zsabellina in Kinloch’s ‘ Large Game Shooting in 
Thibet and the North-West,’ taken from a carefully stuffed specimen. 
The author says : ‘On the 4th of July 1866, I was hunting Oves Ammon 
on the high ground between Hanle and Nyima, when I suddenly came 
upon a female lynx with two young cubs. I shot the mother, and 
as the cubs concealed themselves among some rocks, I barricaded them 
in, and went on with my hunting. On arriving in camp I sent men 
back to try and catch the cubs; in this they succeeded, and brought 
them tome. They were about the size of half grown cats, and more 
spiteful vicious little devils cannot be imagined ; they were, however, 
very handsome, with immense heads and paws. For two or three days 
they refused all food; but at the end of that time they fed quite 
ravenously from the hand. ‘They soon became very tame and playful, 
