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longer fur, this giving the animal the appearance of more robust 

 legs and less tapering tail. The skull and teeth differ only in 

 the greater average size of fully adult individuals, a character 



FlO. 9S. 

 Felis siloestn'x (upper flgiiie) and F. cahis (lower figure). Nat. size. 



most readily appreciable in the teeth. In twenty European 

 specimens of Felis sih'estris and a like number of F. catm the 

 extremes for certain dental measurements are as follows : — 

 Combined length of upper carnassial silredr!s. catus. 



andpw^ lG-6to20-0 .. 15-0 to 17-8 



Combined length of lower cheek-teeth 18-8 ,, 23-6 .. 18-0 ,, 20-4 

 Lowermolar 7-8 ,, 100 .. 6-6,, 8-6 



Fklis silvestris silvestris Schreber. 



1758. {Felis] catm Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., i, 10th ed., p. 42 (part; synonyms 



only, the description refers to the domestic cat). 

 1777. Felis (Catus) silvestris Schreber, Siiugthiere, in, p. 397. 

 1777. [Felis catus] ferus Erxleben, Syst. Regni Anim., i, p. 518. 

 1857. Felis catm Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 162 (Not of 



Linnaeus). 

 1896. Catus ferox Martorelli, Atti Soc. Ital. Soi. Nat., Milano, xxxv, p. 253, 



January, 1896 (Accidental renaming of Catm ferus Brehm, Illustr. 



Thierleben, i, p. 275, 1863). 

 1907. Felis sylvestris Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, p. 150, June 12, 



1907. 

 1910. Felis silcestris Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, p. 98. 



Tjjpe locality. — Germany. 



Geogra^phical distribution,— Centva] and southern continental 



