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DIFFERENT KINDS OF CATS. 



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of more or less dark brown spots. Two narrow, elongated white 

 marks commence beside the nose and extend on to the forehead, 

 and another, in each zygomatic region, extends back on the neck 

 beyond the angle of the jaw, with a deep red-brown border above 

 and below. Muzzle, lower parts of cheeks and chin white, except 

 part of the upper lip, which is yellow and striped. Fine, blackish 

 stripes on the head, all but the middle one extending to the begin- 

 ning of the back. Chest whitish, with reddish-brown spots, which 

 tend to form transverse bauds like a series of incomplete collars. The 

 spots form elongated markings along the back and sides ; some- 

 times the spots of the sides form leopard-liko rosettes, but some- 

 times they do not do so. 



Length of head and body about twenty-five inches. 



Length of tail, twelve inches. 



The orbits are nearly enclosed by the post-frontal processes. 

 The nasals extend backwards about as far as do the maxilla). 

 The first premolar falls early. 



The animal is found near Canton and in Formosa. 



(28.) The Small Cat (Felis mimda),* 



This animal is very like that last described, but it is smaller, and 

 the tail is much shorter. The spots also are less rounded and more 

 in the form of short stripes. The orbits are nearly enclosed by 

 bone, as in F, chinensia, but the nasals extend backwards decidedly 

 beyond the hinder ends of the adjacent parts of the maxillsB. 



Length of the head and body, twenty-three inches. 



Length of the tail, six and a half inches. 



This animal inhabits the Indian Archipelago, including Borneo 

 and at least the island of Zebu in the Philippine group of islands. 

 The F. HerscheHi of Grayt appears to be but a light- coloured 

 variety of F. mimda. 



(29.) Jerdon's Cat {Fe/is Jerdoni). I 



This animal is very like F. cJiinensis and F. minuta, but it is 

 smaller, and the spots which mark it are darker and more distinct, 

 and they do not so distinctly form stripes on the shoulders. 



The fur is grey, with a few small, distinct black spots. The spots 

 on the sides of the body and of the limbs are roundish ; those of 

 central part of back are linear and rarely confluent. Tail and feet 



* Gray, Cat. of Caruivora, p. 26. 



t Pro. Zool. Sec, 1867, p. 401 ; and 

 Catalogue, p. 28. 



X The specimen in tlie Britisli Museum 

 which is thus named, was so named 

 orally by Jlr. Blyth, but was not de- 



scribed till Dr. Gray described it in the 

 Pro. Zool. Soc, 1867, p. 401 ; and 

 Catalogue, p. 28. Mr. Elliot identifies 

 this with his F. ruhiginosa, but the two 

 appear to me to be distinct. 



