Descriptions of East Asiatic Mammals 189 
race F. c. fulvidina occurs in Annam, Tonkin, Siam, and 
Burma. The Indian race, F. c. affinis, extends into Yunnan. 
Felis chaus is not found in the Malay Peninsula. 
The subgenus Prionailurns contains the Tiger Cats, Felis 
bengalensis, the Rusty-spotted Cats of India, F. rubiginosus, 
the Fishing Cats, F. viverrinus, and the Flat-headed Cat, F. 
planiceps, the last sometimes placed by itself in the subgenus 
Ictailurus. 
The Leopard Cats, Felis bengalensis, are heavily spotted and 
striped. The ground color is burly brown or reddish brown, the 
spots and stripes blackish. The length of the head and body is 
from 18 to 28 inches, the tail from 9 to 14 inches, hind feet 4% 
to 5 inches. The type locality is Bengal but the typical race 
extends into Burma, Yunnan, Siam, and Indo-China. Chasen 
records it in the Malay Peninsula. A related race, F. b. chinensis, 
occurs in Kwangtung, Fukien, and the islands of Hainan and 
Formosa, and F. b. scripta in Szechwan. In north China, Hopei, 
and Shensi, the local representative is F. b. microtis, shown by 
Ognev also to inhabit the Siberian Maritime Province and the 
northern side of the Amur River at least as far as lat. N. 50°. 
In Manchuria the local race near Mukden is named F. b. man- 
churica. 
The Fishing Cat, Felis viverrina, has the tail proportion- 
ately shorter than have the Leopard Cats. It is heavily spotted, 
as in F. bengalensis. The ground color varies from deep olive- 
gray to yellowish gray or nearly ash-gray. The underparts are 
white, with the spotted pattern forming two collars across the 
throat and transverse bars on the chest. It is considerably larger 
than the Leopard Cat, the dimensions being: length of head 
and body about 28 inches, tail 10 to 12 inches, hind foot 5% to 
7 inches. The habitat is tropical, from India to Cochin-China, 
the Malay Peninsula, and Java. 
Although the Fishing Cat is said to prowl about reed beds 
