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Science: Winged Cat

Citizens of Portland, Ore., flocked to see a curious creature publicly exhibited by one Arthur Kingery of Wapato, Wash., who said he had captured it in his chicken-yard. It was a cat, thrice the size of a house cat, with a tail heavy and furry, like a coyote's. On each side of its spine, beginning just back of the shoulders, grew a pair of muscular ridges, for all the world like two pairs of rudimentary wings, furred heavily. The feline's hind feet measured five inches, spreading out like the feet of a snow-shoe rabbit.

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