66 CARNIVORA. 



Length from tip of nose to root of tail, 1 foot 5 inches ; 

 head, 3 inches. 



Frequents the neighboiu'hood of streams, ascends trees, 

 feeds on rats, mice, &c. ; is easily tamed. 



Inhabits many parts of France, Poitou, the Department 

 du Gard, and other districts of that country, as well as 

 Spain and Barbary. 



Genus FELIS. 



Teeth. — Incisors, | ; canines, ~j ; molars, ~^ or 

 1^. In the upper jaw the molars consist of two false 

 molars of a conical form ; one large tooth called the car- 

 nassial, and one small tubercular tooth, with its greatest 

 length across the jaw. In some species this last is wanting. 

 In the lower jaw are two compressed molars and a carnas- 

 sial with two points ; no tubercular tooth. The canine teeth 

 are very large. The tongue is covered with horny parts, 

 directed backwards ; the claws are retractile. 



Felis Manul. 



Felis Manul, Pallas, Zoog. Eoss. As. vol. i. p. 20 ; Keyserling u. 

 Blasius, Wirbelth. Europ. p. 61 ; Schinz, Em-op. Faun, 

 vol. ii. p. 509 ; Desm. Mamm. Sp. 357. 



Desceiption. — The tail is more than half as long as the 

 body, cyhndrical, hairy, with nine rings more or less di- 

 stinctly marked, those nearest to the root tawny, those 

 near the tip, and the tip itself, black. The general colour 

 of the fur on the upper parts of the body pale, tawny, yel- 

 lowish, with scattered dusky hairs, having black tips ; the 

 top of the head and between the eyes thickly speckled 

 with numerous black spots ; on each cheek are two parallel 

 oblique black streaks ; whiskers in four rows, white, ex- 

 cept two large black ones ; under parts of the body lighter 



