This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
A member of the cat family, smaller than the leopard and the ounce. It is about 3 feet long, and is found in America from Texas to Brazil, and in Sumatra. It climbs trees and feeds on birds and small animals. 0'chre. [Fr. ocre.] A fine kind of iron clay, either red (hematite) or yellow (limonite), used with size for painting.
 
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