Jo2 Lloyd's natural history. 



dency in these Cats to run into stripes, especially on the limbs.' 

 It was on such a half-breed that the so-called Waved Cat (F. 

 torquatd) was named. Jerdon observes that at Hissar the 

 Desert Cat is almost always found among the low sand-hills, 

 although occasionally in bare fields, frequently in company with 

 the Desert Fox. 



XXXVI. SHAW'S CAT. FELIS SHAWIANA. 



Felts shawiana, Blanford, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xlv. 



p. 49 (1876); id., Scientific Results 2nd Yarkand Mission, 



Mamm. p. 17, pis. i. b, i. c (1879). 



The distinctive features of this species or variety having 



been already given under the heading of the Desert Cat, it will 



suffice to mention that is is known only from a few skins and 



a skeleton, mostly purchased in the bazaars of Kashgar and 



Yarkand. 



Distribution. — Eastern Turkestan (Yarkand and Kashgar). 



XXXVII. THE JUNGLE CAT. FELIS CHAUS. 



FeUs chaus, Giildenstadt, Nov. Comm. Ac. Petrop, vol. xx. p. 



483 (1776); Elliot, Monograph of Felidae, pi. xxxiii. 



(1878-83); Blanford, Mamm. Brit. India, p. 86 (1888). 

 Fells catolynx, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. vol. i. p. 83 (181 1). 

 Lynx chaus, Fischer, Zoognosie, p. 230 (1814). 

 Felts hi fas, Pearson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. i. p. 75 



(1832). 

 Felis affinis, Gray, Illustrations Indian Zool. vol. i. pi. iii. 



(1832). 

 Felis erythrotis, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. v. p. 



233 (^S 6 )- 



Felis inco?ispicua, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. i. p. 577 



(1837). 

 Chaus Hbycus, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 45 (1843), 



