*75 
C A T. 
the point for that time *, and readily returns to it# 
matter. 
Ua,^a,Xif. Oppian Cyneg. III. L’Oftce de Btifron, h. 151. tab. 126. Once, 
*! 95 * xiii. 
ranthera ? P/mV, lib. viii, c. 17. 
C. with a large head: fhort ears : long hair on the 
whole body : color a whitifh afli, tinged with yel¬ 
low : on the breaft and belly with a fmaller call 
of yellow : head marked with fmall round fpots : 
behind each ear a large black fpot: the upper 
part of the neck varied, with large fingle fpots: 
the Tides of the back with longitudinal marks* 
confifting of feveral fpots, almoft touching each 
other, leaving the ground color of the body in 
the middle: the fpots beneath thefe irregular* 
large, and full: thofe on the legs fmall, and 
thinly difperfed : the tail full of hair; irregularly 
marked with large black fpots. This fpecies is of 
a ftrong make : long backed : fhort legged: length 
from the nofe to the tail, about three feet and & 
half: tail upwards of three feet. 
Inhabits Barb ary **, Perfia , Hyrcania f and Chi* 
is an animal of a more gentle and mild na,« 
pure than moft of the preceding; is, like the laft* 
* Bernier's travels, iv-. 45. Tavernier's travels, I, 147. Thevemh 
voy. v. 34. 
** Where it is called Faadh. Shaw's trav . 24c. 
f Chardin. 
t Where it is called Poupi . The /kins are brought from- China 
jnt® Ruffia, and fold for twenty /hillings apiece,. Samlmgi 
pur Rajifehm Gefchkhf, III. ^49. ,6o§. 
ufed 
