THE CLOUDED TIGER 6 1 



In the clouded tiger. "It is a Rimau Dayan in 

 minature " as Martin himself observed; indeed, so 

 accomplished a naturalist as Jerdon actually sup- 

 posed that the two inannorata in the Edinburgh 

 collection were examples of the true clouded tiger. 

 The specimen described by Mr. Martin had been 

 obtained in Java or Sumatra by Mr. Gould. Schwaner 

 obtained the marbled cat in Borneo ; it is also recorded 

 from Sumatra, Malacca, and the Himalayas, thus 

 parallelling the disitibutioji as well as the appearance 

 of the clouded tiger. Although it is little known in 

 collections of living animals, a specimen of the marbled 

 cat, together with two young F. javanensis, was 

 received at the Zoological Gardens on May 29, 1885, 

 having been presented by Frank Swettenham, Esq., 

 author of "Malay Sketches," and Acting British 

 Resident at Perak, in the Malay Peninsula. 



The marvellous resemblance between clouded 

 tiger and marbled cat reminds one of the likeness of 

 Rudolf Rassendyll to his cousin King Rudolf V. in 

 the "Prisoner of Zenda." Truth, however, is much 

 stranger than fiction. King Rudolf had but one 

 double; the clouded tiger has tivo. This second 

 duplicate is the Thibetan cat {F. scripta), which in 

 higher latitudes represents the marbled cat of the 

 South. First obtained by Pere David in the Princi- 

 pality of Moupin, it inhabits hill forests like the 

 clouded tiger. The Thibetan species is rufous 

 brown on the head and back, yellowish buff on 



