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NOTE XI. 

 ON FELIS BADIA (}RAY 



BY 



Dr. F. A. JENTINK. 



November 1901. 



Among some very commonly known mammals, presented 

 to the Leyden Museum by the well-known Dutch Borneo- 

 explorer Dr. Nieuwenhuis, I found a fine Cat quite distinct 

 from all other cats I ever saw; it has a size somewhat 

 larger than Felis planiceps, a small head like that cat, 

 a much longer tail and a much darker color — though 

 of a uniform tinge like in planiceps — than the latter 

 offers. Moreover there are, though only to see in cer- 

 tain lights, three stripes on the head from between the 

 ears. No species having been described presenting the 

 named peculiarities, I supposed the cat belonging to an 

 undescribed form. Studying however the small uniformly 

 colored Cats from Borneo, I was struck by the plate of 

 Felis badia published by Dr. Gray in P. Z. S. L. 1874, as 

 the animal there figured presents a small black spot at 

 the upper end of its tail and which character is also to 

 see in my specimen. The color however of Gray's animal 

 was too bright and in the description no word concerning 

 the three stripes on the forehead. As I read in a foot-note 

 on p. 322 of Gray's description that Wolf's figure was 

 inexactly drawn, I had reason to suppose that description 

 as well as figure might perhaps be incomplete and with- 

 drawn. Now there being of Felis badia no specimen in 

 our collection, 1 wrote to Mr. Oldfield Thomas for infor- 



Notes from the Leyden Miuseum, Vol. XXÜII. 



