C A T. 
the body long and foft, of a cinereous color, tinged 
with red, marked with dufky fpots, more or lefs 
diftinct in different fubjefts *, in fome fcarce vifible : 
belly whitifn : ears eredly tufted with long black 
hairs, the character of the different fpecies of 
Lynxes: legs and feet very thick and ftrong: the 
length of the fkin of a Ruffian lynx, from nofe to 
taii, was four feet fi# inches; the tail only fix: 
vary fome times in their color : the Irbys , from lake 
Balckafh *, or the Kattlo , of the Suedes, is whitifn, 
fpotted with black, and larger than the common 
kind; this large variety is called by the Germans , 
Wolf-Lucks , and Kalb-Lucks , on account of its fize. 
Inhabits the vail forefts of the N. of Europe , 
Afia , and America **, not India^ tho 5 poets have 
harnefled them to the chariot of Bacchus , in his 
conqueft of that country : bring two or three young 
at a time : is long-lived : climbs trees : lies in wait 
for the deer, which pafs under, falls on them, and 
feizing on the jugular vein, foon makes them its 
prey : will not attack mankind ; but is very deftruc- 
tive to the reft of the animal creation : the furs of 
thefe animals are valuable for their ioftnefs and 
warmth : numbers are annually imported from North 
America , and the north of Europe , and Afia ; the 
farther North and Eaft they are taken, the whiter 
they are, and the more diftindt the fpots •, of thefe 
the molt elegant kind is called Irbys , taken near 
Situated weft of the river Irtyfi. 
** Wildcat, La<ujfon Carolina, 11S. Catejhy App. xxv. found as 
far fouth as Mexico, the Pinuum Dajypus of Nuremberg. 153. 
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