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whence the story of its being the lion’s caterer, or 
guide, as if a, friendly league existed between the 
two animals for mutual advantage. 
Cuvier states, that this, and not the common lynx, 
is the animal intended by the ancients under the 
name ; but Virgil certainly alludes to the spotted 
species in the ^neid — 
monstrate mearum 
Vidistis si quam hic errantem forte sororum, 
Succinctam pharetra, et maculoscc tegmine lyncis. 
There is a variety of the caracal found in Bar- 
bary, which Pennant names the Libyan caracal, and 
which Dr. Shaw identifies with the booted lynx of 
Bruce. A specimen of each variety is now in Mr. 
Cross’s collection at Exeter ’Change ; they accord 
in make precisely, and differ only in colour, the one 
being vinous red, and the other gray. There are 
probably, also, other permanent varieties of this 
animal. 
There might be reason to conclude, that the dark 
variety is no other than that represented in the last 
plate, from Major Smith’s drawing, under the name 
of chaus ; but the white crescent on the throat, and 
the streaks observable in that animal, are not met 
with in this, whence their principal distinction : but 
whether this be a specific difference, or the effect of 
variety in the same species, may be doubted. The 
characters above given, however, are not mentioned 
by Guldenstedt in his description of the chaus ; 
whence a probability may be inferred, that the animal 
