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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
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CHAP. XII.) DIFFERENT KINDS OF CATS. 429 The metacarpals and metatarsals are relatively long. The brain is considerably convoluted.* The corpus albicans is fairly divided into two corpora mammillaria, as in various other large cats. The pupil is round when contracted, f The animal, as is well known, is employed for the chase, being taken to the hunting field in a cart, with a hood over its head. Mr. Jerdon has observed it, when let loose after the game, crouch
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Fig. 183.—Skull of the Cheetah (C. julata). along the ground, and seek out every inequality of surface to enable it to get unseen within proper distance of the antelope it was pursuing. Nevertheless it can run with a velocity as great as that of a well-mounted huntsman. The cheetah is found at least in Western, Central, and part of Southern India, also in Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia, and Africa, to near the Cape—certainly in both Senegal and Kordofan. (50.) The Woolly Cheetah (Cyncelurus lanea)4 This species has been recently described by Dr. Sclater, and appears to me to be distinct, though Mr. Elliot regards it as a mere variety of the common cheetah. * See Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc., vol. i., plate 20. t Of this I have been made aware through the kindness of Mr. A. D. Harriett. J Pro. Zool. Soc, 1877, p. 532, plate 55.

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