1 86 Lloyd's natural history. 



The domestic breed of Indian Cats showing evidence of a 

 cross with the Jungle Cat has already been alluded to under 

 the heading of Domestic Cats. 



In Southern Persia, where it is very common, the late Sir 

 O. B. St. John writes that he has shot the Jungle Cat " at 

 Shapur (3,000 feet), in a ravine of the hills near Borajun 

 (500 feet), and on the Karagatch, more than 6,000 feet above 

 the sea, showing that this Cat is not particular about climate. 

 In the last-mentioned place I found three kittens, so young as 

 to be unable to drink milk. I reared them with some difficulty 

 till about three months old, by which time they became very 

 tame and playful, climbing up on to my knees when at break- 

 fast, and behaving very much like ordinary domestic kittens. 

 Unfortunately one was killed by a greyhound and another by 

 a scorpion, within a few days ; on which the survivor be- 

 came morose, and refused to be comforted, even by the 

 society of a kitten of his own age, which I procured as a 

 companion to him. When I left Persia, in 1867, he was a 

 year old, and very large and powerful. Two English Bull-Ter- 

 riers I had, who made short work of the largest Domestic Cat, 

 could do nothing with my wild Cat. In their almost daily 

 battles, the Dogs always got the worst of it." 



Again, Blyth writes that "in India the Chaus does not shun, 

 but even affects populous neighbourhoods, and is a terrible de- 

 predator among the tame ducks and poultry, killing as many as 

 it can get at ; but I have not known it attack geese, of which I 

 long kept a flock out day and night, about a tank where ducks 

 could not be left out at night on account of these animals. 



XXXVIII. THE TALE CAT. FELIS PALLIDA. 



Felts pallida, Biichner, Bull. Ac. St. Petersburg, ser. 2, vol. 

 iii. p. 433 (1893) ; id., "Wissensch. Result. Rcis. Przewalski, 



p. 228 (1894). 



