THE MARBLED CAT. i i 7 



menagerie appear to have rendered it very intractable for a 

 few days ; but it soon became perfectly familiar, and fond of 

 the persons who were employed about it. It was rather less 

 voracious than a Leopard, and was fed with beef and the heads 

 of fowls. 



Mr. Hose, who found this species on the Baram River, on 

 Mount Dulit up to 5,000 feet, and on Mount Batu Song to 

 2,000 feet, writes that " this animal is constantly procured 

 by the natives of Borneo, the canine teeth being used by the 

 Kayans and Keniahs as ear-ornaments, and the skin for the 

 purpose of a war-coat. It is found both in the low country 

 and on the mountains to a height of 5,000 feet." 



VIII. THE MARBLED CAT. FELIS MARMORATA. 



Felis marmorata, Martin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 107 ; Elliot, 



Monogr. Felidae, pi. ix. (1878-83) ; Blanford, Mamm, Brit. 



India, p. 74 (1888); Hose, Mamm. Borneo, p. 18 (1893). 

 Felis diardi, Jardine, Naturalist's Library, Felinse, p. 221 



(1834 ; nee Cuvier). 

 Felis longicaudatus, De Blainville, Osteographie, vol. ii. Felis, 



P 47 (1839-64). 

 Leopardus marmoratus, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 42 



(1843). 

 Felis charltoni, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. xviii. p. 44 



(1846). 

 Felis ogilbyi, Hodgson, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. vol. viii. p. 



44 (1846). 

 Uncia marmorata, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, vol. xiv. 



p. 394 (1854). 

 Uncia charltoni, Gray, loc. cit. 

 Leopardus dorsul, Gray, Cat. Hodgson Coll. 2nd ed. p. 3 



(1863). 



