. Elements of zoölogy : a textbook. Zoology. CARNIVORA: CATS. 83 blotches on each flank; the Leopard of Africa and India, similar in appearance to the Panther, but with ten rows of smaller spots on the sides; the Puma, which is found from Canada to Patagonia, and which is larger than the largest dogs, and whose color is pale brownish-yellow, finely mottled by dark tips to the hairs ; and such also are the Ocelot and Yaguarundi, cats found from Texas to South America; and such, of course, is the domestic cat, origi- nally from the forests of the East, but now found all over the world in company
. Elements of zoölogy : a textbook. Zoology. CARNIVORA: CATS. 83 blotches on each flank; the Leopard of Africa and India, similar in appearance to the Panther, but with ten rows of smaller spots on the sides; the Puma, which is found from Canada to Patagonia, and which is larger than the largest dogs, and whose color is pale brownish-yellow, finely mottled by dark tips to the hairs ; and such also are the Ocelot and Yaguarundi, cats found from Texas to South America; and such, of course, is the domestic cat, origi- nally from the forests of the East, but now found all over the world in company with man. All the true Cats be- long to the genus Fells. The cats known as Lynxes have the tail very short, and they have one molar less than the true cats, in each side of the upper jaw. As examples of this kind, we may mention the Canada Lynx, about forty inches in length, and of a grayish hoary color waved with black, and the ears tipped FIG. Canada Lynx, Lynx canadensis, Eafinesque. with a pencil of black hairs; and the American Cat (Lynx riifus\ which is about thirty inches long, and of a pale rufous color overlaid with grayish, and whose ear is black on the outside and has a white patch, and whose tail has a black patch above at the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tenney, Sanborn, 1827-1877. New York : Scribner
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