ORIGIN OF THE DOMESTIC CAT 167 



of the Tweed. Perhaps the last genuine wild cat 

 seen in England was the one shot by Lord 



WILD CAT SPRINGING ON ITS PRET. 



Ravensworth atEslington, Northumberland, 1853 ; ^ 

 1 Trans. Tyneside Nat. Field Club, 1894, vol. vi., p. 123. 



