388 MOUNTAIN LYNX. 
countenance ! How many times have her tender 
caresses made me forget my troubles, and consoled 
me in my misfortunes ! My beautiful and interest- 
ing companion, however, at length perished. After 
several days of suffering, during which I never 
forsook her, her eyes, constantly fixed on me, were 
at length extinguished ; and her loss rent my heart 
with sorrow/' 
The varieties of this animal in a domestic state 
are very numerous ; it is either entirely black ; 
black and white ; black, fulvous, and white, 
called the tortoise-shell, or Spanish cat ; white 
without any variegation ; fulvous and white ; dun 
colour or taw ny, either plain or with deeper stripes ; 
tabby, or of a similar colour to the wild cat, but 
with much bolder, or more vivid variegations ; 
slate coloured, or blue grey, called the Chartreux 
cat ; slate coloured, with very long fur, especially 
on the neck and tail, called the Persian cat ; white, 
with hair of a similar length, called the Angora 
cat, just described ; and lastly, with penciled or 
tufted cars, like a lynx, which sometimes, though 
rarely, takes place. Those of the white yariety 
are sometimes deaf. 
LYNXES, OR CATS WITH SHORT 
TAILS. 
Mountain lynx, or wild cat of Carolina; 
The length of this animal is two feet and a 
half ; and his tail, which is barred with black, 
measures only eight inches. His ears are upright 
a&d pointed, marked with two brown bars across. 
