CAT. 
$iyah-Ghu.(h, or black ear. Char- part. II. 648. tab. x iv. 
letonEx. 21. tab. page 23. Ran Le Caracal de Bujfon , ix. 262. 
Jyn. quad. 168. Pb. Tranf. vol. LI. tab. xxiv. 
C. with a lengthened face, and ftnall head: very 
long (lender black ears, terminated with a long tuft 
of black hairs: inflde and bottom of the ears 
white : nofe white : eyes fmall: the upper part of 
the body is of a very pale reddifh brown : the tail 
rather darker : belly and bread whitifh: limbs 
ftrong, and pretty long : tail about half the length 
of the body. 
Inhabit Perfidy India , and Barbary *; are often 
brought up tame, and ufed in the chace of Idler 
.quadrupeds; and the larger fort of birds, fuch as 
cranes, peiecans, peacocks, &c. which they fur- 
prize with great addrefs: when they leize their prey, 
hold it fail with their mouth, and He for a time mo- 
tionlefs on it : are faid to attend the lion, and to 
feed on the remains of the prey that animal leaves 
are fierce when provoked : Dr. Charleton fays, he 
faw one fall on a hound, which it killed and tore 
to pieces in a moment, notwithftanding the dog de¬ 
fended itfelf to the utmoft. 
The Arabian writers call it Amk el Ard; fay that 
it hunts like the panther ; jumps up at cranes as 
they fly; and covers its fteps when hunting f. 
* Shaw’s Travels, 247. The mouth' of the Barbary variety is 
black, and the face fuller. 
** Voy. de The vend. III. 204. The Arabs , according to Theve#ot, 
call it Kara-Ccidac , or Black Ear. 
t Dr. Thomas Hyde, in UJugh Beighi 5 tab . p. 36. the figure is from 
an original drawing by Mr. Edwards , T 
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i37.Persias. 
