CAPE CAT, 
the particulars of his proposed classification 
of the Cat genera. 
The description of the skin of the full- 
grown animal, as given by Mr. Pennant, is 
comprised in a very narrow compass. " It 
has," he says, " short hair, of a bright ferru- 
ginous colour. The face is marked with 
black stripes, tending downwards: and, from 
the hind part of the head, to the tail, the back is 
marked with oblong stripes of black; the sides, 
with very numerous small and round spots of 
black. The belly is white. The tail, which 
is long, is of a bright tawny colour, annulated 
with black. The ears are long, narrow, 
pointed, and very erect. The length, from 
the nose to the tali, is nearly tbree^ feet." 
To account for the difference between the 
size of the skin which he describes, and that 
of the animal examined by Dr, Forster, Pen- 
nant politely suggests, " mine might have been 
from a distended skin, or his from a young 
animal." We are friends to politeness, when 
not carried too far; but we are greater friends 
to truth, of which there can be no such dan- 
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