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CARNIVORA. 
was common in France, and has but recently dis- 
appeared from Germany. 
The remaining species of cats are proper to 
America 5. and as they are all specifically different 
from those already mentioned, though generically 
the same, it may be convenient to regard the whole 
genus in reference to locality, making two principal 
divisions, one composed of those proper to the old 
world, and the other of such as belong to the new. 
