The Quadrupeds of North America, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Quadrupeds of North America, Vol. 3Head, large, jaws, capable of great expansion, incisors, large, and slightly curved inwards, ears, rather small, rounded, clothed with short hairs on the inside. Body, rather inclining to be stout, and shorter and less elegant than the cougar: at the shoulders the Jaguar is not much more raised from the earth, but it stands higher from the ground near the rump.Feet, clothed with hair covering the retractile nails, the pads of the feet, naked, a few hairs between the toes, tail, long, and generally half elevated when walking whiskers, few, strong, and bristly.Hair of two kinds the longest (which is only from four to five eighths of an inch in length) is the coarser the shortest is a softer and finer fur, and is not very thickly distributed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.