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blackish). (2) The outer side of the legs presents several black stripes. 

 (3) The ears are reddish-brown, more or less chesnut -brown, passing into 

 black above ; the black hairs projecting a little beyond the margin. (!) The 

 tail iu the upper half is reddish beneath, gray on the sides, externally black- 

 ish, with traces of rings. The lower half is anuulated with black and white, 

 with three black rings and a black tip. (5) The tail is much longer than 

 iu the other two species ; in this species it presents 22 vertebra?, and in 

 F, califjata only 19. Only in South Africa. 



The same author (p. 5G) also distinguishes Felis libyca, 

 Fr. Cuv., from F. maniculata. 



Whilst, for instance, in two specimens from Sennaar, which he refers to 

 F. maniculala, he finds the stiff hair short, and the down scanty, the fur of 

 F. Hbyea, on the contrary, is very rich, thick, strong, and remarkable from 

 the abundance and length of the down. Of the latter he is acquainted with 

 three specimens : one from Tangiers, another from Oran, and a third proba- 

 bly from Abyssinia. The two specimens in our collection, which came from 

 Upper Nubia, would, from these statements, belong to F. libyca rather than to 

 F. maniculata. I believe, however, that there is no specific difference between 

 them, but that the former is in the winter, the latter in the summer, coat. 



A new species is characterized by Is. Geoffroy (p. 59), from a specimen, 

 as Fells Jacquemontii. From Kursali, in the Himalaya, perhaps not less than 

 2600 metres above the sea. At, first regarded by him only as a variety of 

 F. caUgata, with somewhat longer fur. The most distinguishing character is 

 in the ears, the outside of which, up to the tip, which alone presents any 

 black hairs, is o? a lively red ; the black triangle situate at the point of the 

 car in F. Chans and caUgata, is wanting in this species. The sides of the head 

 and rump, belly, inside of legs, the tarsi both fore and hinder, and the under 

 side of the root of the tail, reddish tawny. Tail black at the point, separated 

 by a white ring from a black one, which, though broad, is ill defined. Body 

 O6 in., tail above 0'2, though not perfect. 



Prom a young specimen of Lynch us erythrotits, Hodgs., Is. Geoffroy docs 

 not venture to determine with certainty whether or no it be identical with 

 F. califfdta. 



From a skin without head or feet, brought from Sierra 

 Leone, Waterhouse has determined a new species. Felis 

 rutila. (Ann. Nat. Hist, xii, p. 58.) 



" F. pilis brcvibus adprcssis ; corpora supra ferrugineo, ad latcra indis- 

 tincte maculato, macidis parvulis, subtus albido maculis rufo-nigricantibus 

 oruato ; cauda brevi, immaculata, supra obscure rufa, subtus pallidiorc." 

 Body about 36", tail 10''. Approaches the Lynxes in the shortness of tin- 

 tail and uniformity of colour. 



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