SMALL RUSTY-SPOTTED GENET 57 



GEOUP A. 



Genetta felina. Small Black-spotted Genet. 



Klein Zivartgevlekte Mosiliaat Kat. 



Kesembling the previous species, but the spots are 

 much smaller, and are arranged in five rows. The hair 

 of the back and tail is much longer than that of tigrina, 

 as already stated in the Key, and forms a crest or mane. 

 The upper portion of the forelimbs is of the same colour 

 as the body in front, the lower portion being black ; 

 the legs black behind. All five toes are white. The tip 

 of the tail is also white. Length of head and body 

 24 inches. Tail 17^ inches. This species ranges from 

 the Cape, through Natal and Zululand, to the Eastern 

 Transvaal, where it seems to overlap with the succeeding 

 species {G. ludia). The Zoo has had examples from the 

 Pretoria district and the Sabi Beserve in the Transvaal, 

 and from various districts of the Cape. 



Genetta ludia, Thomas and Schwann. 

 Small Rusty-spotted Genet. Klein Boodgevlekte Mosiliaat Kat. 



Similar to G. felina, but the spots on the body, especially 

 those on the lower portion, are of a dark rusty-brown, 

 often more or less coalescing into bars or stripes. The 

 forelimbs are of the greyish fawn or drabbish tint of the 

 body, and are without the black lower half characteristic 

 of felina, the rear margin only being black. The stripe 

 along the back is black, like that of G. felina. 



I am not certain, with the paucity of literature at my 

 disposal, whether this is not Matschie's zamhesiana, 

 but pending further investigations I give it the name 

 chosen for it by Thomas and Schwann from specimens 

 collected in the North-Eastern Transvaal by C. H. B. 



