7. CATOLYNX. 



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orbits rather small, incomplete behind. The skuU is very unhke 

 that of Felis viverritut. 



Fig. 4. 



Pardalina Wancicldi. 



There is in the British Museum a Cat that -was formerly alive in 

 the Surrey Zoological Gardens, and was there called the Himalayan 

 Cat, and which, in the ' List of Mammalia in the British Museum,' 

 published in 1842, 1 called Leopardus hlmalaymms. This animal is 

 figured, from the specimen at the Surrey Zoological Gardens, in Jar-« 

 dine's ' Naturalist's Library' as Felis hhnalayanus, Warwick. The 

 figure is by no means a characteristic one. The Cat has not been 

 brought from Himalaya by any of the numerous sportsmen and col- 

 lectors that have searched that country. It is not knoMTi to Mr. 

 Blyth, nor to any other Indian zoologist to whom I have shown it ; 

 indeed Mr. Blyth states that he believes it to be a South American 

 Cat. 



The examination of the skull shows that it forms a group by itself; 

 and in my paper in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 266, I formed for it a 

 genus under the name of Fin-dnlina. As the species has not been well 

 described, 1 have given a description of the tjpe specimen. 



7. CATOLYNX. 

 Head round. Ears rounded. Pupil oblong erect. Tail very 

 long, cylindrical. Skull ovate; face short, rather broad; nose slightly 

 flattened on the sides ; forehead arched ; the nasal bones moderate, 

 elongate, separated from the maxillte by the long slender processes of 

 the intcrmaxilla) and frontal bones. First upper false grinder small, 

 distinct. Orbits large, subcircular, complete or nearly complete be- 

 hind. Internal nostril narrow, arched in front, 

 f'atoh-nx. Gra;/, P. Z. S. li^CT. p. 2(;7. 



