The Hijlory f ANIMALS. 545 
ornamented with a pencil of fine black hairs: the mouth is furnifhed with very ter¬ 
rible teeth, and there are whifkers about it, as alfo over the eyes: the neck is long, 
and moderately thick : the break is large and broad ; the body is moderately corpu¬ 
lent ; the legs are very robuk, and the claws terrible 5 the tail is fhort and abrupt, but 
thick, and well covered with hair. 
The fur upon the whole animal is very long and deep, but is not fo thick as in many 
of the preceding fpecies j it is of a very Angular colour, a kind of a very pale reddifh- 
brown: there is an admixture of white in it in fome parts, and the whole body and 
legs are fpotted with black: the fpots are of an irregular figure, and Hand at dikances, 
and are not large. 
This is a native of fome parts of Europe; it is even found fo far north as Den¬ 
mark and Sweden, where it lives in the midk of thick woods, and will climb trees 
with great facility. All the writers on quadrupeds have defcribed it. They call it 
Lynx and Lupus Cervarius; we, the Ounce. It is a very fierce creature, and 
remarkable for the quicknefs of it’s fight. 
Felis cauda truncate cor pore albo y maculato. VAjitfc 
The Jhort-tailed , white Felis , with black fpots. £DHft£th 
This is of the bignefs of our bull-dog, and is a very beautiful, but very fierce and 
mifchievous, animal: the head is large and fhort j the forehead is depreffed j the eyes 
are large and blue, and the nokrils are wide j there are whifkers about the mouth, 
and over the eyes, and the ears end in a pencil of long hairs of a grey colour: the 
break is broad ; the body fhort and thick; the tail fhort, thick, and truncated, and 
the legs krong, but not fo remarkably thick as in the other: the claws are very 
fharp and robuk. 
The whole body is white, only that there are a few fpots of black of an irregular 
figure fcattered over it in different places; thefe are largek toward the back, and fmall 
upon the legs: the tail is pretty equally variegated with black and white. 
This is a native of many of the northern parts of Europe, but it is rarely feen; it 
lives in the midk of the thickek foreks, and climbs trees with great alacrity. The 
Swedes call it Callo. 
Felis cauda elongata^ auribus cequalibus . 
The long-tailed Felis, with even ears . 
3Tf)e Cat. 
This is the fmalleft animal of all this genus: the head is Ihort and rounded; the 
neck fhort and thick ; the body long and kender 5 the legs flender and fhort; the tail 
very long, and well covered with hair. The natural colour is a brown tawny, varie¬ 
gated with very pale, and almok white, kreaks, difpofed crofs-wife, and running from 
the ridge of the back to the lower part of the fides % the belly and the throat are 
white. 
This is the natural colouring of the cat, as we have it wild in our woods. When 
it is kept in the houfe, the breed is fo mixed with various-coloured males and females, 
that the diverfification is almok infinite. It is lingular, that this fpecies is fmaller 
when kept in the houfe, than while wild. I have feen many of them in Rocking¬ 
ham forek, and other woods in Northamptonfhire, and elfewhere 5 they feed on rab¬ 
bits, leverets, and the like, and do a vak deal of mifchief to the game. In France 
the cats are all of a bluifh lead colour; in the North of Europe they are all white. 
All the writers on quadrupeds have defcribed the fpecies, under the name of Felis, 
Felis domekica, and Felis vulgaris. 
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