THE CARACAL. 
Fretis CARACAL. Linn. 
‘Tar Caracal, which is unquestionably identical with the 
Lynx of the Ancients, but whose original name has been; 
in modern times, usurped by an animal of northern 
origin, utterly unknown to the Greeks, and distinguished. 
by the Romans by a totally different appellation, is a 
native of most of the warmer climates of the Old World, 
infesting probably as large an extent of the surface of 
the earth as the Lion or the Leopard themselves. 
Throughout the whole of Africa, from Egypt and Bar- 
bary to the extremity of Caffraria, and in the southern 
half of Asia, at least as far eastwards as the Ganges, he 
follows, as it were, in the footsteps of those larger and 
