XVI 



CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XII continued. 



SECT. 



the Bay Cat, the Fishing Cat, 

 the Leopard-cat, the Wagati 

 and the Marbled Tiger-cat . 



7. The Serval, the Golden-haired 



Cat, the Grey African Cat, and 

 the Servaline Cat . . . 



8. The Ocelot, the Margay, Geof- 



froy's Cat, the Ocelot-like 

 Cat, the Yaguarondi, the Eyra 

 and the Colocollo . . . 



9. The Rusty-spotted Cat, the Chi- 



nese Cat, the Small Cat, Jer- 

 dou's Cat, the Java Cat, the 

 bushy-tailed-red-spotted Cat, 

 the Small -eared Cat, the 

 Large-eared Cat, the Flat- 

 headed Cat and the Bomean 

 Bay Cat ..... 

 10. The Egyptian Cat, the Common 

 Wild Cat, the Indian Wild 



398 



406 



408 



413 



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Cat, the Common Jungle Cat, 

 the Ornate Jungle Cat, the 

 Steppe Cat, Shaw's Cat, the 

 Manul and the Pampas Cat . 419 

 j 11. The Northern Lynx, the Pardine 

 Lynx, the Thibet Lynx and 

 the Caracal . . . .424 



12. The Common Cheetah and the 



Woolly Cheetah . . . 427 



13. Review of living Cats . . 430 



14. Extinct Cats . . . . 431 



15. Machserodus .... 432 



16. Hoplophoneus and Pseudnelurus 433 

 ] 7. Nimravus and Dinictis . . 435 



18. Archgelurus .... 436 



19. Pogonodon and Eusmilus . . 437 



20. Fossils of uncertain nature, 



and summary of fossil cat 

 genera .... 437 



CHAPTER XIII. 



THE CAT'S PLACE IN NATURE. 



SECT. PAGE 



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. These distinguish it from all 



non-living beings . . . 441 



4. An objection considered . . 442 



5. The character of the Cat as a 



living being . . . 445 

 G. 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 provinces and classes *of 



backboned animals espe- 

 cially the class of fishes . 455 



11. The characters by which the 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 Bronchia, ta , . 460 



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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 Aves or Birds . . 462 



17. The characters by which the Cat 



differs from all birds, from all 

 Monocondyla, and from all 

 non-mammalian Vertebrata . 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 JEluroidea . . .475 



23. The families of the Cat's sub- 



order 481 



24. The peculiarities of the Cat's own 



family Felidse . . . 486 



25. Position of the genus, Felis, and 



the Cat's place amongst all 

 other creatures , f . 489 



