THE WILD CAT OF EUROPE. 



(FELIS CATUS.) 



Order CARNIVORA. 



Suborder PISSIPEDIA. 



Section ^LUEOIDEA. 



Family FELID^. 



Genus FELIS. 



Species Felis sylvestris, Gesner. 

 Felis CATUS, Lmnceus. 



Synonyms. 



Felis sYLVJSSTRis, Gesiier, Konrad von, Hist. Anim. 1551; 



Aldrovandus, Ulisses, De Quadrupedibus digitatis ovip. 



1637; Olavs Magnus. Hist. Brev. de Felibus seuCatus; 



Bvffon, G. L. Comte de, Hist. Nat. 1755 ; Brisson, M., 



Le Regiie Animal, 1756; Jonstonus, Johannes, Hist. 



Nat. de Quadrup. 1759 ; Schreber, J. C. D. von, Die 



Saugethiere, 1775, vol. iii. 

 Felis sylvatica, Merrett, Christophe, Pinax Rerum natura- 



lium Brit. 1667. 

 Felis agreste, Scaliger, Jul. Caesar, Comment. Aristotelis 



Hist, de Animalibus, 1619. 

 Felis domestica seu catus, Ray, .John, Synop. Method. 



Anim. Quad. 1693. 

 Catus sylvestkis, Sibbald, Sir R., Prodromus Hist. Nat. iu 



Scot, illust. 1684. 



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