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live fowl, or rabbit, which it feizes eagerly, and lies 
upon it without motion, for a confiderable time, to 
fuck the blood, and this proves a certain cure. The 
figure fhews it to have alio a tail like that of a 
cat. 
None of the natural hiftorians have any account of 
this animal, that I have yet feen, except the learned 
Dr. Walter Charleton who has a bad figure of it, 
engraved at the expence of Dr. John Lawfon, his 
cotemporary, of the college of phyficians, as it ap- 
pears in an infcription at the bottom of the plate, 
wherein the head is, contrary to truth, very large 
and ftrong in appearance, the tail like that of a fox, 
and the whole as flrong as a maftifF dog : the name 
given it in the plate is the fame with this, but dif- 
ferently fpelled, thus, Siyah-ghujh . 
This author very juftly ranks it among the cats, 
and has given fuch an account of this animal, as well 
deferves the notice of this learned Society, of which 
I have made the following Englifh extract. 
“ Among the wild cats, which vary according to 
tc the difference of climate, manner of living, and 
,c the like, none is more worthy of notice than that 
“ which is now kept in the park of our fovereign 
<{ King Charles II. It was fent to the king by an 
c< Englifh gentleman, who was governor of our mer- 
“ cantile affairs in the dominion of Surat, and is called, 
“ among other names, in the Perfian language, Siyah- 
* See his Exercitationes de Differentiis et Nominibus Ani- 
raalium. 
‘‘ Ghujh, 
