C A T. i »3 
The Wild red cat, which has aftreak of bright 
red, running along the ridge of the back to the tail, 
and lofmg itfelf in the grey and white on the fides : 
thefkins are faid to give eafe in the gout, and are much 
valued on that account at the Cape. The other he 
calls 
The Bush cat ; of which he fays no more, than 
that it is the largefl of wild cats in the Cape coun¬ 
tries. 
(Wild Cat.) Catus fylveftris. veftita, cauda annulis alternatim 133. Common. 
Boumriitter. Gefner quad. 325. nigris et ex i'ordide albo flavican- 
Catus fylveftris, ferus vel feralis, tibus cin£ta. Briffon quad. 192. 
eques arborum. Klein quad. 75. Kot Driki, Zbik. Rzaczinjki Po- 
Wilde Katze. Kram Auflr. 311. Ion. 217. 
Felis fylveftris. F. pilis ex fufco, Le chat fauvage de Buff on, vi. j. 
flavicantc, et albido, variegatis tab. I. Br. Zool. I. 47. 
C. with long foft hair, of a yellowifh white color, 
mixed with grey} the grey difpofed in ftreaks, point¬ 
ing downwards, rifing from a dufky lift, that runs 
from the head to tail, along the middle of the back : 
tail marked with alternate bars of black and white, 
its tip black : hind part of the legs black : three 
times as large as the common cat •, and very ftrongly 
made*. 
Inhabits the woods of moft parts of Europe: a 
variety of a blue color is met with at the Cape 
of Good Hope: moft deftrudtive to lambs, kids, and 
fawns *, and to all forts of feathered game. The 
* In the Ruffian Afiatic dominions is a very elegant race of wild 
cats, with very foft fur, of the color of a Lynx; the young ones 
beautifully fpeckled with black : the Ruffians call them StepniaKoJkkj. 
Muller Sami. Ruff. III. 608. 
N 4 frock. 
