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field ; there are in the Museum typical specimens of all these 

 tl ree varieties. 



F. pardochroa (" w ") differs from the ordinary F. bengalen- 

 sis merely in having the ground colour a bright yellow instead 

 of the ordinary gray or grayish yellow ; the skull, however, resem- 

 bles in every respect the typical F. bengalensis. 



Felis javanensis (" k^ ") has some resemblance to F. viverrina 

 in having a grizzly gray ground and in the spots being arranged 

 to a certain extent in straight lines instead of irregularly. 



Felis sumatrana (" 1^ ") resembles the ordinary F. bengalensis 

 in every way. There does not seem to be any differences in the 

 skulls of these three forms. 



