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Wild Cat. Penn. Quadr. i. p. 295. Penn. Brit. Zool. 

 i. p. 80. Smellie's Buffon, iv. p. 49, tab. 46. Bing. 

 Anim. Biog. 3d edit. i. p. 304. 



Common Cat. Shaw's Gen. Zool. i. p. 363. 



2. The Domestic Cat. Less than the wild cat, hair 

 shorter and thicker. Felis catus domesticus. Linn. 



The FEMALE domestic cats are very various in colour. Some are 

 entirely black, others variegated with black and white, and others 

 (from which they have the name of tortoise-sheil cats,) with black, 

 fulvous, and white. Some again are altogether white ; others fulvous 

 and tawny ; others tabby, or like the wild cat, but with much more 

 vivid variegations ; and others dun coloi r o'r tawny, either plain or 

 with deeper stripes. These variations in colour are, however, con- 

 fined to the females, the MALES being nearly all marked with grey 

 stripes. A tortoise-shell male cat is considered a great rarity in the 



species. W. B. 



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Felis catus minor, pilis brevioribus, et crassioribus. 

 Felis (catus) domesticus. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. gen. 

 13, sp. 6, var. ft. i. p. 80. Erxleben, Syst. regn. animal, 

 gen. 44, sp. 12, var. b. p. 520. 



Felis domestica. Brisson, regn. animal, p. 191. 

 Klein, quad. desp. p. 75. Gesner, p. 317. Ruysch, i. 

 pa. 1. p. 126, tab. 72. Raii. Syn. quadr. p. 170. 



Felis catus. Domestic cat. Turton, i. p. 49. Kerr, 

 p. 154. 



Le Chat domestique. Buff. Sonn, xxiv. p. 5. pi. 1. 



Domestic Cat. Penn. Brit. Zool. i. p. 82. Smellie's 

 Buffon, iv. p. 49, tab. 47. Bing. Anim. Biog. 3d edit, i, 

 p. 305. 



Common Cat. Shaw's Gen. Zool. i. p. 163. 



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