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The Living Animals of the World 



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PAMPAS-OAT. 



Note the liktness of the thick tail and barred legs to our English wiU cat. 

 " Inexpressibly savage in disposition " (Hudson). 



the most beautiful is the Golden Cat of 

 Sumatra, one of which is now in the 

 Zoological Gardens. It has a coat the 

 colour of gold-stone. The nose is pink, 

 the eyes large and topaz-coloured, the 

 cheeks striped with white, and the under- 

 parts and lower part of the tail pure 

 white. 



P'our Icinds of wild cats are known in 

 South Africa, of which the largest is the 

 Serval, a short-tailed, spotted animal, with 

 rather more woolly fur than the leopard's. 

 The length is about 4 feet 2 inches, of 

 which the tail is only 12 inches. It is found 

 from Algeria to the Cape ; but its favourite 

 haunts, like those of all the wild cats of 

 hot countries, are in the reeds by rivers. 



and Japan, wliicli seems to have grey fur 

 in Japan and a fulvous leopard-like skin 

 in India, where it is also called the Tigek- 

 CAT ; and the smallest of all wild cats, the 

 little EoSTY-srOTTED Cat of India. This 

 has rusty spots on a grey ground. "I had 

 a kitten brought to me," says Dr. Jerdon 

 of the species, " when very young. It 

 became quite tame, and was the delight 

 and admiration of all who saw it. When 

 it was about eight months old, I introduced 

 the fawn of a gazelle into the room where 

 it was. The little creature flew at it the 

 moment it saw it, seized it by the nape 

 of the neck, and was with difficulty taken 

 oft'. Of the whole-coloured wild cats —which 

 include the Bay Cat, the American Pampas- 

 cat, Pallas' Cat of Tibet and India — 



I'huloliy A. .1. hi 



EYEA CAT. 



Ihe lo^vest and longest of the cats, shaped more like a civet ; it is readily 

 tamed, and makes a charming pet. 



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BAY CAT. 

 This is an exampile of the comjjletely tawny small cats. 



It kills hares, rats, birds, and small nrammals 

 generally. 



The Black-fooi-ed Wild Cat is another 

 African species. It is a beautiful spotted- 

 and-lined tabby, tlie size of a small domestic 

 cat, and as likely as any other to be the 

 origin of our tiibliy variety, if tame cats 

 came to Europe from Africa. At present 

 it is only found south in the Kalahari 

 Desert and Bechuanaland. 



The Kaffir Cat is the common wild 

 cat of the Cape Colony, and a very in- 

 teresting animal. It is a whole-coloured 

 tawny, upstanding animal, with all the 

 indifference to man and generally in- 

 dependent character of the domestic tom-cat. 



