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turn wild in England. They hunt by the eye only ; nei¬ 
ther do they properly purfue, but lie in wait and attack 
animals by furprife ; and, after (porting with them, and 
tormenting them for a long time, they put them to death, 
without necellity, even when well fed, purely to gratify 
their fanguinary appetite. Unlike the faithful dog, they 
are attached rather to places than to perfons. They re¬ 
quire fifteen or eighteen months, to come to their full 
growth, and live nine or ten years. 
II. Tails Jliorty ears penciled at the tip: a dijlinguifliing 
charaEler of the Lynx. 
18. Felis montana, the mountain lynx. This animal 
is two feet and a half long; and his tail, which is barred 
with black, meafures only eight inches ; his ears are up¬ 
right and pointed, marked with two brown bars acrofs ; 
the colour of the head, and of the whole upper part of 
the body, is a reddifh-brown, marked with long narrow 
ftripes on the back, and with numerous round fmall (pots 
on the fides and legs; belly greyifh ; chin and throat 
pure white. It inhabits the mountainous parts of North 
America ; is mild and gentle, and grows very fat. 
19. Felis rufa, the bay lynx. This derives its name 
from the general colour of its head, back, and fides, and 
the exterior parts of its limbs, which are of a bright bay, 
obfcurely marked with dufky fpots. Its irides are yel¬ 
low ; and the orbits of its eyes are edged with white ; 
tail Ihort; ears upright, iharp-pointed, and tufted with 
long black hairs; its face is marked with black (tripes 
pointing to the nofe. On each fide of the upper lip, 
there are three rows of fmall black fpots, with long fiiff 
hairs ilfuing out of them ; its cheeks are marked with 
black curved firipes ; its cheeks, lips, and lower parts, 
are white ; the infide of the fore legs is marked with two 
black bars, and the upper part of the tail with dufky 
ftrokes, and next the end with one of deep black ; its 
tip and under fide are white. It is a creature of a thick 
firong make, twice the fize of a cat, and inhabits the in¬ 
terior parts of the province of New York. 
20. Felis chaus, the Cafpian lynx. Head oblong, 
with reftlefs fhining eyes, adorned with a me 11 brilliant 
golden pupil ; nofe oblong and bifid ; wbilkers about two 
inches long; ears eredt, oval, and lined with white fur; 
the outfide is reddifli, and their fummits are tufted with 
black hairs; its hair is coarfer than that of the cat, but 
lefs fo than that of the wolf; it is fhorteft on the head, 
but on the back it is two incites long ; the colour of its 
I’.ead and body is a yellowilh brown; bread and belly 
bright orange ; it has two obfeure tranfverfe dufky bars 
itear the bending of the knee ; its feet are like thofe of 
the cat, clothed with hair, and black below ; its tail, 
thick and cylindric, readies only to the flexure of its 
•leg; it is of the fame colour with the back, tipped with 
black, and three black rings near its end. In its general 
appearance it has the form of the domefiic cat; its 
length is two feet fix incites, its tail eleven inches, its 
height before nineteen inches, behind twenty ; it is fume- 
times found fo large as to meafure three feet. It inha¬ 
bits the marfliy reeds and woods that border on the wefiern 
fide of the Cafpian Sea. In manners, voice, and food, 
it agrees with the wildcat; it conceals itfeif during the 
day, and in the night wanders over the flooded trabls, in 
learch of prey; it feeds on rats, mice, and birds, but 
feldom climbs trees ; it is exceeding fierce, and never 
frequents the haunts of men. It is fo impatient of cap¬ 
tivity, that one taken in a trap, by which it had its leg- 
broken, refufed for many days rite food placed by it ; 
but, in its rage, devoured the fractured limb, with pieces 
of tite (fake it was fafteued to, and broke all its teetii in 
its violent efforts to get loofe. 
21. Felis caracal, the Perfian lynx-. This is nearly as 
large as a fox ; it has a lengthened face, and fmall head ; 
ears black, very Tong and (lender, and terminated with a 
Suit of black hairs ; the infide and bottom of the ears are 
white.; its nole is alio white ; eyes fmall 5 upper pan of 
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its body pale reddifii' brown; tail fomewhat darker; 
belly and bread whiiifii ; tiie hind part of each leg is 
marked with black ; tail about half the length ot its 
body. It inhabits Perlia, India, and Barbary. They are 
often brought up tame, 'and iifed in the chace of the 
fmaller quadrupeds, and tire larger fort of birds, as 
cranes, pelicans, ami peacocks, which they feize with 
great addrefs. In India, tiie emperor .Akbar is (aid to 
have been the fir ft who taught them to feize the fleet an¬ 
telope and tiie deer. The Lybian lynx is a variety of this 
fpecies; it hath fnort black tufts to the ears, which are 
white within, and of a lively red without ; its tail lias 
four black rings, and is white at tiie tip ; it has black 
marks behind its legs; and is inferior in fize to the former. 
It inhabits botli Lybia and Barbary. 
22. Felis lynx, the common lynx. This is larger than 
a fox : tail (liorr, and black at tiie tip ; eyes pale yellow ; 
the hair under its chin is long and full ; on its body it is 
long and foft, of a cinereous colour tinged with red, and 
marked with dulky fpots, more or lefs diftimft indifferent 
fubje&s ; in fome fcarceiy .vifible : its belly is whitifh ; 
ears eredb, and tufted with long black hairs ; legs and 
feet very thick, and fheng. A Rullian lynx will meafure, 
from nofe to tail, four feet fix inches, while the tail is 
only fix inches long: they vary fometimes in their colour. 
The irbys, from Lake Balkafli, fituated to the weft of the 
river Irtifli, as alfo the katlo of the Swedes, is whitifii- 
fpotted with black, and f larger than the common kind. 
This large variety is called by the Germans, wolf lucks, 
and kalb-lucks, on account of its fize. In the Britilh Mu- 
feum are two mod beautiful fpecimens, faid to have been 
brought from Spain. Perhaps it was a variety of this 
which Dr. Pallas faw killed iit tiie pine woods, on the 
banks of the Volga, below Cafan. It was of an uniform 
whitifh yellow above, and unfpotted ; beneath white ; 
the ears tipped with black. That might alfo be the variety 
feen by Foiter in tiie royal menagerie at Peterfburgh, 
brought from Thibet, with dufky fpots on a yellovvifli 
white ground ; and of a fierce and piercing afpecl. It 
inhabits the vail forefts of the north of Europe, Afia, 
and America, hut not the hot regions of Africa, or of 
India, though tiie poets have harneffed them to the cha¬ 
riot of Bacchus, in his conqueft of that country. The 
female brings two or three at a time. It is a long-lived 
animal ; it climbs trees, and lies in wait for the deer that 
pafs under, drops on them, and, feizing the jugular vein, 
focn bleeds them to deatii. It does not attack man, but 
is very deftrudhive to tiie reft of the animal creation; 
fiiice, after fucking the blood and devouring tiie brain,, 
it abandons its prey, and goes in purfuit of frefii game. 
Tiie furs of thefe animals are valuable for their foft- 
nefs and warmth ; but their colour varies according to 
tiie feafon and climate. Numbers of them are annually 
imported from North America, and tiie north of Europe 
and Afia. Tiie farther north and eaft they are taken, 
tiie whiter they are, tiie more diftimft the fpots, and the 
greater their value. 
FEI.lU'-DEpQUIXOLO, a fea-port town of Spain, 
in Catalonia, on the ccaft of the Mediterranean : leven 
leagues fouth of Gerona. 
FE'LIX (M. Antonins).., a freed man of Claudius Ciefar,. 
made governor of Judaea, Samaria, and Puleftine. He is 
Called by Suetonius tiie luitband of three queens, as lie 
married the two Drufilite, one grand-daughter of Antony 
and Cleopatra, and tiie other a jewiih princefs, lifter of 
Agrippa. The name qf his third wife is unknown. Tacitus. 
FE'LIX, the name of feveral popes of Rome ; which fee. 
FELIZA'N, a town of Italy, in tiie Alexandra): eight 
miles weft of Alexandria, and twelve ealt of Afti. 
FELL, adj. [pelic, Sax.] Cruel; barbarous; inhuman : 
So fellef foes,, 
Wliofe paflions and whofe plots have broke their deep, 
To take tiie one tiie other, by fome chance, 
Some trick not worth an egg, (hall grow dear friends. 
Skakefpearc. 
Savage; 
