CAT. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
F elis Catus. F. cauda elongata annulata. Linn. Syst. Nat. 
Gmel. 1 . p. 80. 
Tail long and annulated. 
Felis cauda elongata, auribus equalibus. Faun. 
Suec. 3. 
Common Cat. Sm. Buff. v. 4. p. 49 . pi. 48 & 49 . Penn. 
Hist. Quadr. v. 1 . p. 295 . Penn. Brit. Zool. 
v. 1. p. 82. Beta. Quadr. p. 208. 
Howel dda, or Howel the Good, died in the year 
948, after a reign of thirty-three years over South 
Wales, and eight years over all Wales. “ That 
excellent prince,” says Mr. Pennant, “ did not think 
it beneath him (among his laws relating to the 
prices, &c. of animals) to include that of the cat ; 
and to describe the qualities it ought to have. 
The price of a kitlirig before it could see was to 
be a penny ; till it caught a mouse, two-pence ; 
when it commenced mouser, four-pence. It was 
required besides, that it should be perfect in its 
senses of hearing and seeing, be a good mouser, 
have the claws whole, and be a good nurse ; but 
if it failed in any of these qualities, the seller was 
to forfeit to the buyer the third part of its value. 
