216 TEJST YEAES IN SWEDEN. 



OEDEE 3. FEE^E. (Beasts of Prey.) 



With three kinds of teeth; six incisors in each jaw, 

 except in some of the seals. Feet armed with claws. 



A. Tuberculated teeth, J- or -f. 1. Tuberculated teeth, -J-. 



Gen. Felis. Cats. 



Head rounded ; eyes large ; pupil of the eye vertical ; 

 five toes on the fore feet, four on the hind feet, all armed 

 with sharp, crooked, retractile claws ; tongue rough. 



18. FELIS DOMESTICA, Briss. Tarn Katt. The Domestic 



Cat. D. F. 



Is common in all parts of Scandinavia wherever man 

 lives in houses, but it does not thrive in the Laplanders' 

 tents. Body 22 in.; tail 10 in., tapering. 

 Singular that the wild cat, which may always be distin- 

 guished from the last by the thick blunt tail, is not known 

 in Scandinavia, nor are fossil remains ever dug up in any of 

 the turf mosses. Nilsson is of opinion that all the tame cats 

 in the north of Europe have sprung from the European wild 

 cat, yet he cannot help acknowledging that the " foramina 

 incisiva " in the common Swedish cat are always oval, never 

 round, as in the South European wild cats. 



19. F. LYNX, L. Lo. (The Lynx.) F. 



Colour grey or brown, covered with more or less dis- 

 tinct black spots ; tail on the outer half black ; length 

 3 to 4 ft. ; height over the withers, 2 ft. ; tail, 9 in. ; 

 ears, 3 in., with a pointed tip of hair, If in. 



Varieties. 



(1). F. CervariajTem. Kattlo. Body covered with 

 black spots all over on a grey ground, forming on the 

 back three longitudinal rows. 



(2).F. Virgata,~Nilss. YargLo. Body covered with 

 smaller and much less distinct spots on a red ground, 

 forming two longitudinal rows along the back. This 

 is, in fact, nothing more than the summer dress of the 

 last. 



