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A DESCRIPTION OF 
eat with leaves ; but if these should be removed, he will 
not touch the food again. It was formerly supposed that 
the Puma could not be tamed ; but this is not correct, as 
the late Edmund Kean, the tragedian, had one which fol- 
lowed him about like a dog, and was often permitted to 
come, at perfect liberty, into the drawing-room when it 
was full of company. 
THE EUROPEAN LYNX. (Felis Lynx.) 
THIS animal is proverbial for his piercing sight : there is 
no beast existing which is able to discover his prey at so 
great a distance as the Lynx. He is of the cat kind, and 
about the size of the fox. The most striking difference be- 
tween the Lynx and others of the tribe is in his tail, which 
is at least half as short in proportion, and black at the ex- 
tremity ; and in his ears, which are erect, with a tuft of long 
