The cat - an introduction to the study of backboned animals, especially mammals (1881) (20398847360)

Title: The cat : an introduction to the study of backboned animals, especially mammals
Identifier: catintroduction00miva (find matches)
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Mivart, St. George Jackson, 1827-1900
Subjects: Cats; Anatomy, Comparative
Publisher: New York : Scribner's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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412 THE CAT (CHAP. XII. (23.) The Yaguarondi (Felis Yaguarondi)* The Yaguarondi is one of the few unspotted cats, like the lion and puma. It has a very long tail and a long body, in propor- tion to the limbs, and its head is long and low. It is of a blackish or brownish grey, with individual variations, both greyish and reddish specimens being found in the same locality. Each hair being blackish grey at the root, then black and greyish again towards the point. The female is said to be of a lighter, brighter colour than the male. The animal is thirty inches from snout to tail, wMle the tail is twenty-five inches long. . The pupil is said to be round. The skull is elongated and somewhat flattened above, but what is exceedingly characteristic of the species is the remarkable way in which the nose is, as it were, pinched in laterally. It inhabits Brazil, Guiana and Paraguay, and North-eastern Mexico. (24.) The Eyra (Felis Eyra).-\ This is the most remarkable of all the cats, from the extreme
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Fig. 175.—The Eyra (Felis Eyra). length of its body in comparison to that of its limbs—a condition which gives it somewhat the appearance of a large weasel. It is also one of the few unspotted cats. The fur is soft, of a uniform reddish-yellow or chestnut colour, * See Biologia, Mammals, p. 63. t Biologia, Mammals, p. 64.