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CARNIVORA. 



FELIDJE. 



FELID^E. 



Genus, Felis. 

 CAT. 



Generic Character. Grinding teeth $:$. No tubercular grinder in the 

 lower jaw ; tongue armed with recurved horny papillae ; claws retractile. 



WILD CAT. 



Felis catus. Linn. 



Specific Character. Yellowish grey, with a dark longitudinal stripe along 

 the back, and numerous obscure transverse stripes on the sides ; tail of equal 

 thickness throughout, less than half the length of the head and body, grey, 

 annulated and tipped with black. 



Felis catus, 



Fells sylvatica, 

 Chat sauvage, 

 Wild Oat, 



LINN. Fn. Suec. 9. Syst. Nat! I. p. 62. 6. DESMAR. Mam. 

 p. 232, sp. 366. TEMM. Monogr. p. 126. FLEM, Brit. 



An. p. 15. JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 14. 



Deutsch. p. 162, fig. 101. 

 MERRETT, Pin. p. 169. 

 BUFFON, Hist. Nat. VI. t. i. 

 PENNANT, Brit. Quad. I. p. 81. 



BLAS. Saugeth. 



Common Wild Cat, JARDINE, Felinse, p. 248, t. xxix. 



IT is impossible to take even the most casual view of 

 the form and structure of the family to which the present 



