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mations ; lie kindly told me as follows : „one skin of F. 

 hadia from Baram (Everett) is quite like the type in every 

 respect. Another, also from Baram (Hose) is a sort of 

 smoky grey, and when first it came I thought it was a 

 different animal. But further examination showed that it 

 was the grey phase of the red one, just as is the case 

 into the Jaguarondi. Although nearly all dark grey, it has 

 here and there irregular touches of a red exactly like the 

 red of the typical form, on the throat, belly, flanks, head 

 a. s. 0. The skulls are quite alike, and both are said to 

 come from the same district. The figure of F. hadia is 

 about right for the type and for the red specimen of 

 Everett's. But Hose's dark specimen is very different. As 

 to the stripes on head. Hose's dark grey specimen shows 

 clearly three dark stripes along the crown to the level of 

 the ears, and in certain lights a trace of them is to be 

 seen in the two red specimens, though they would not 

 have been noticed if one had not been guided to them by 

 the dark specimen. There is also an indistinct dark post- 

 auricular patch in the dark specimen". 



Thanks to Thomas' description I feel as yet sure that 

 I have before me the fourth specimen ever procured of the 

 therefore very rare Felis hadia^ a splendid addition to our 

 collections indeed. Charles Hose said in his „descriptive 

 account": „this handsome red cat is very rare and only 

 met with in the dense forest. It is about the size of Felis 

 marmorata, but the general colour is a dark chestnut red. 

 I have not had an opportunity to notice the habits of 

 this animal, having only obtained one specimen". 



I fail to detect in Wolf's drawing the „two palish streaks 

 on the cheeks" (cf. footnote in Gray's description), but the 

 black streak and ditto patch on the cheeks, represented in 

 the named drawing are perfectly wanting in our animal. 

 Each whisker-hair is at its base surrounded by a black 

 circle, which circles are implanted in red-brown streaks ; 

 for the rest the upperlips are white, like the chin and 

 lower half of cheeks ; on the latter however the white is 



Notes from the Leyden IVEuseuni, Vol. XXIII. 



