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they hunt for them and catch them in one and the same 
manner. They are the two extremes of the Felidce, or cat 
family, regarded in point of size. 
The true cats — composing the genus Felis — are externally 
distinguished from the other members of the family, or the 
lynxes, by their more slender form and by a much longer 
tail than is ever possessed by any of the latter genus. 
They are distributed throughout America, Asia, and Africa; 
one species alone being found in Europe. 
The Lion {Felis leo) ranges all through Africa, from the 
Cape of Good Hope to the Mediterranean and through a 
great part of Southern Asia, but there, at least, in rapidly 
lessening numbers. 
In ancient times, we are told by historians, they were 
Icnown in Greece, but civilization has long since driven them 
out of Europe. 
THE LION AND LIONESS. 
