carnivora. 
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©ccasionally, vegetable food, which the wild varieties 
are not known to do ; a natural or physical indication 
of which is to be found in the intestines of the do- 
mesticated, which are longer than those of the com- 
mon wild species. 
The varieties of the domestic cat are considerable 
in number : as the brinded cat, with black feet and an- 
nulated tail ; the slate-coloured, or blue-gray, called 
the Chartreuse cat ; the tortoiseshell, or Spanish 
cat ; the white, or slate-coloured^ with long fur, 
called the Persian cat ; and a beautiful long-haired 
species, called, the Angora cat, which is remarkable 
for sometimes having one eye blue and the other 
yellow; the red cat of Tobolsk, mentioned by 
Gmelin ; the pendant-eared cat of China ; and the 
Pensa cat, described and figured by Pallas, in his 
Travels, which, indeed, seems likely to have been 
hybridous, though it was prolific. 
There is also, according to Sir S. Raffles, a variety 
of the domestic cat peculiar to the Malayan Archi- 
pelago, and remarkable for having a twisted or 
knobbed tail, in which particular it agrees with that 
of Madagascar. Sometimes it has no tail at all. 
This coincidence with the Madagascar variety is the 
more remarkable, as the similarity between the lan- 
guage and customs of the inhabitants of Madagascar 
and of the Malay, Islands has frequently been a 
subject of observation. 
There is also an hereditary variety of the cat in 
this country, which is without any visible tail. It 
is not uncommon in Cornwall ; and Dr. Leach re- 
