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Vi. CAT. 
a2. WILD. 
WW I Ls CA TT. oa 
Six cutting teeth and two canine in each jaw. 
Five toes before; four behind. 
Sharp hooked claws, lodged in a fheath, that may 
be exerted at pleafure. 
Round head: fhort vifage: rough tongue. 
Felis pilis ex fufco flavicante, Morton Northampt. 443. 
et albido variegatis veitita, Ge/ner quad. 325. 
cauda annulis alternatim ni- Catus fylveftris ferus vel fe- 
gris et ex fordide albo flavi- ralis eques arborum, K/eia 
cantibus cincta. Briffon quad. quad. 75. 
192. Br. Zool. 22. Syn. quad. 
De Buffon, Tom. vi. 20. Tab 1. No. 133. 
Brit. Cath goed Germ. Wilde katze, Boumritter 
Fren. Le Chat Sauvage Dan. Vild kat 
Span. Gato Montis 
HIS animal does not differ fpecifically from 
the tame cat; the latter being originally of 
the fame kind, but altered in color, and in fome 
other trifling accidents, as are common to animals 
reclamed from the woods and domefticated. 
The cat in its favage ftate is three or four times 
as large as the houfe-cat,; the head larger, and - 
the face flatter. The teeth and claws, tremen- 
dous: its mufcles very ftrong, as being formed 
for rapine: the tail is of a moderate length, but 
very 
