T20 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



wise carry longitudinal black streaks. Length of head and 

 body of type, 21 y^ inches; of tail, 10^ inches. 

 Distribution. — Moupin, Eastern Tibet. 



x. fontanier's cat. felis tristis. 



Felis Irish's, Milne-Edwards, Recherches Mammif. p. 223 

 (1868-74); Elliot, Monogr. Felidoe, pi. xxii. (1878-83); 

 • Mivart, The Cat, p. 400 (1881). 



This is also a little-known species, distinguished from the 

 other Cats of the regions it inhabits by its large size, whitish- 

 grey ground-colour, large spots, and rather short tail. It is 

 described as having soft and long fur, of a whitish-grey ground- 

 colour, upon which three or four blackish-brown lines, com- 

 mencing on the head between the ears, run the whole length 

 of the back, the remainder of the upper-parts, as well as the 

 flanks and limbs, being marked with large dark brown solid 

 spots. Chest with two bars of rufous-brown running across it. 

 Tail bushy, less than half the length of the head and body ; 

 rufous- brown above, and yellowish-brown below ; with a series 

 of obscure dark brown bars on the upper surface. Length of 

 head and body, 33^2 inches; of tail, 16 inches. 



Distribution. — The interior of China ; the skin of the type 

 specimen having been purchased in Pekin. 



xi. the golden, or bay cat. felis temmincki. 

 Felis temmincki, Vigors and Horsfield, Zool. Journ. vol. iii. p. 



451 (1828); Elliot, Monogr. Felidoe, pi. xvi. (1878-83); 



Blanford, Mamm. Brit. India, p. 75 (1888); Hose, 



Mamm. Borneo, p. 19 (1893). 

 Felis moormensis, Hodgson, Gleanings in Science, vol. iii. p. 



177 (1831). 

 Leopardus moormensis, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 41 



(1843). 



