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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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Fig. 34.—Felis Lynx. Lin.), twice the size of a large domestic Cat, and comparatively lOwer 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 differentindividuals.* F. Sinnatrauus 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 theii- ears, and fur generally spotted more or less dis-tinctly : those of cold countries have the fur long.A species little less than a Leopard {F. lynx, Lin.)stdl mhabits the mountainous parts of Europe,from Scandinavia to Spain and Naples, and, it is*:aid the north of Afr
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