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head and body. The coat color is brownish gray. Black stripes 

 show on the head, neck, and back, black-edged blotches on the 

 sides and flanks, and solid black dots on the limbs and under- 

 parts. The marbled cat is found from northern India and 

 Burma south to Sumatra and Borneo. It is rare everywhere. 

 For this reason and because of its nocturnal habits it is seldom 

 seen. 



Fig. 4i4i— Marbled Cat 



The Golden Cat (Felis temmincJcii) , about the size of a small 

 collie dog, has longer legs than the marbled cat. The color of 

 the pelage varies in different individuals from dark brown to 

 red or grayish brown, the area along the back being darker. In 

 the northern subspecies of this cat the body is often covered 

 with spots and rosettes; these are rarely faintly discernible in 

 southern subspecies. A form occurs in which the coat is black 

 or nearly so. The face markings are alike in all color types of 

 this cat except in the melanistic form. A pair of grayish bands 



