. FiG. 46. The European and the American wild cats respectively. Clearly our doniesticated cat is more closely related to the former longing to the same general region. Besides these there are the yellowish-gray Caffre or Eg}'ptian cat {Felis eajfrdf-, from which the European species, which he greatly resembles, has doubtless sprung ; the common wild cat {Felis eatjis), which has inhabited P2ngland since the days of the mammoth, and at one time cov- ered all P>urope except the southern portion ; the pampas cat of South America, the jungle cat of India, and so on into the lynxes, the hunting
. FiG. 46. The European and the American wild cats respectively. Clearly our doniesticated cat is more closely related to the former longing to the same general region. Besides these there are the yellowish-gray Caffre or Eg}'ptian cat {Felis eajfrdf-, from which the European species, which he greatly resembles, has doubtless sprung ; the common wild cat {Felis eatjis), which has inhabited P2ngland since the days of the mammoth, and at one time cov- ered all P>urope except the southern portion ; the pampas cat of South America, the jungle cat of India, and so on into the lynxes, the hunting leopard, and other more distant relatives. All wild animals of the cat kind are universally hated by hunters because of their stealth and innate savagery, for, whether tiger or leopard, panther, puma, jaguar, lynx, or wild cat, they 1 Also called Felis caligata and Felis maniailata.
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