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Osscure Specizs, 
M OfUPN ERA RNA ICCACT. 
There ftill remain undefcribed fome animals of the Feline race, 
which are found in North America,. but too obfcurely mentioned by 
travellers to be afcertained. Such is the beaft which Law/on faw to 
the weftward of Carolina, and calls a Tiger. He fays it was larger 
than the Panther, i.e. Puma, and that it differed from the Tiger of 
Afia and Africa*. \t poffibly may be the Brafilian Panther, Hif. Quad. 
N°158, which may extend further north than we imagine. It may 
likewife be the Cat-a-mount of Du Pratz+; which, he fays, is as high 
as the Tiger, i. e. Puma, and the fkin extremely beautiful. 
The Pijoux of Louifiana, mentioned by Charlevoix}, are alfo ob- 
fcure animals. He fays they are very like our Wild Cats, but larger : 
that fome have fhorter tails, and others longer. ‘The firft may be 
referred to one of the three laft fpecies: the laft may be our Ceyenme 
Cat, Iv x67. 
Domeftic Cats are kept in Jceland and Norway§. Some of them 
efcape and relapfe to a favage ftate. In Iceland thofe are called Urda- 
kelter, becaufe they live under rocks and loofe ftones, where they hide 
themfelves. They prey on fmall birds. The moft valuable of their 
fkins are fold fortwelve Danif fkillings, or fix pence a-piece. Linnaeus, 
{peaking of the cats of Sweden, fays, they are of exotic origin ||. They 
are not found wild either in that kingdom, or any part of the Rufian. 
dominions. Unknown in America. : 
* Hift. Carolina, 119. 
t ii. 64. Iwith to fupprefs the fynonym of Cat-a-mouxt, as applied to the Cayenne 
Cat, as it feems applicable to a much larger fpecics. 
1 Hift. de le Nouv. France, vi. 158. §. Oluf. Iceland, i. Paragr. 80. Pontop.. 
ii. 8. | Faun. Sueee N° 9. 
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