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same manner. They are the two extremes of the Felicia, or cat 
family, regarded in point of size. 
The true cats—composing the genus Fells —are externally 
distinguished from the other members of the family, or the 
lynxes, by their more slender form and by a much longer 
tail than is ever possessed by any of the latter genus. 
They are distributed throughout America, Asia, and Africa; 
one species alone being found in Europe. 
The Lion (Fells led) ranges all through Africa, from the 
Cape of Good Hope to the Mediterranean, and through a 
great part of southern Asia, but there, at least, in rapidly 
lessening numbers. 
In ancient times, we are told by historians, they were 
known in Greece, but civilization has long since driven them 
out of Europe. 
THE LION AND LIONESS. 
As with all animals whose wide range of distribution ex¬ 
poses them to many different climates and kinds of food, 
