S3 CASSELL'S POPULAR NATURAL HISTORY. 



ranging IV...,. f'affwria to Abyssinia, and even to Dargola. Its mode of approaching 

 ita pn-v i, that ol the wolf, but its force is much smaller. Its colours arc a very irregular mixture e 



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TIIK < YXIIV.ESA. 



white, In-own, and yellow, dispersed in patches, and they are not symmetrical on the two sides of the 

 body. I is ears will be seen from the engraving to be large, and its thighs to be long. 



THE CAT.* 



Tin: next Family to that just considered consists of one of the cat kind, of the order C<n-n<rr<i. 

 Siu-h is the development of their organs of destruction that they are, among the quadrupeds, what the 

 h'ni,-<i,ii,ln- :n-e among birds. Many eminent zoologists have been disposed to bring all the numerous 

 peciec und.-r one genus. Linmeus arranges them under PrHs, the third genus of his order l''n-<i; 

 placing them between the dogs (Cmu-i) and Yii-i'rrn.\ Illiger gives them a place in his order l-'al<-nlnl<t, 

 with tin- till.' Sangumaria. Cnvier puts them, under the name of Les Chats (Fdi, Linnreus), among 

 the third family of his Carnassiers, between the hyania and the seals, but separates 

 into. two sections the first comprising those which are found in the Old Continent and its 

 an-hip.-l:igos, eighteen species in number: the second, those which occur in the New World, of which 





nine species. We shall restrict ourselves to the members of the tribe 



the 



"in eminent naturalist, Dr. J. E. (iniy, comprising the cats, lions, tigers, leopards, and 

 lynxes. 



Tin- /''/./.; are the most powerful and ferocious of all predatory animals. Few of the ancient 

 c.niris -particularly (!,. in the Kast __ wanted an establishment of them ; and, on occasions of 



Kclin. 



f-See vol. i.,p. 353, &c. 



