The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . Fig. 33.—Tiger-cat of Sa Notwitlistanditi^ its i this species presents , being strictly that of a Felit, iG Fig. 34.—Felis Lyr Lin.), twice the size of a large domestic Cat, and comparatively .ower on the legs, is marked somewhat like theJaguar, but with a tendency to a linking of the spots into longitudinal bands, more or less observable in diflerentindividuals.* F. Sumatranus and Bengalensis are not larger than a House-cat, but coloured like the
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . Fig. 33.—Tiger-cat of Sa Notwitlistanditi^ its i this species presents , being strictly that of a Felit, iG Fig. 34.—Felis Lyr Lin.), twice the size of a large domestic Cat, and comparatively .ower on the legs, is marked somewhat like theJaguar, but with a tendency to a linking of the spots into longitudinal bands, more or less observable in diflerentindividuals.* F. Sumatranus and Bengalensis are not larger than a House-cat, but coloured like the foregoing ;though individuals commonly occur of the same greyish ground-tint as the majority of the smaller species. Abeautiful European Cat, with the markings of the Leopard group, is the F. pardina, Oken, which inhabits themountains of Spain ; its tail, however, is short, as in the following. There are many others].Lynxes are short-tailed Cats, with mostly pencil-tufts to their ears, and fur generally spotted more or less dis-tinctly : those of cold countries have the fur species little less than a Leopard (F. lynx, Lin.)still inhabits the mountainous parts of Europe,from Scandinavia to Spain and Naples, and, it issaid, the north of Afr
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