THE OUNCE. 



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animal's carnivorous propensities. Dr. Lund has recognised 

 this form of dentition in the fossil remains of an extinct 

 Brazilian species not larger than a cat, and which he calls 

 Cynailurus minuta. 



THE OUNCE. (Felis uncia, Gmel.) 



This animal, which is said to be found in Persia, differs 

 from the leopard (Felis leopardus) and the panther (F. pardus) 

 merely in the inequality of the spots, which are more irregularly 

 disposed, and partly crenate or annulated, &c. It is only 

 known to us by the figure in Buffon's work (vol. ix. pi. 13), 

 and that which Col. Hamilton Smith has inserted in Griffith's 

 translation of Cuvier's Rfyne Animal, taken from a specimen 

 that was living in London. 



THE COMMON EUROPEAN LYNX. (Felis Lynx, Linn.) 



This species, formerly an inhabitant of all the temperate 

 parts of Europe, but now exterminated in the more populous 

 districts, is still found in the Pyrenees, in the mountains of 

 Naples, and, as it is said, even in Africa. 



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