72 PELID&. 
CARNIVORA. FELID£. 
Fig. 67. 
Nat. size. Grays, Essex. 
FELIS CATUS. Wild Cat. 
Felis ferus, Serres, Recherches sur les Ossemens des cavernes de 
Lunel-Veil, 4to, 1839, p. 119. 
Foss remains of a feline animal about the size of the 
Wild Cat were first noticed by Dr. Schmerling in his de- 
scription of the Caverns in the Province of Liege, where 
they were found in tolerable abundance. He assigns the 
right ramus of a lower Jaw, which exceeds by a few lines 
the specimen figured above, to a species or variety which 
he calls Felis Catus magna ; and the greater proportion of 
the fossils, which include some entire skulls, to the Felis 
Catus minuta. These, however, do not vary from the 
standard of the existing Wild Cat more than the varieties 
due to age or sex are now observed to do. 
MM. Marcel de Serres, Dubreuil, and Jean-Jean, have 
enumerated a considerable collection of bones of the Wild 
Cat discovered in the caverns of Lunel-Veil.* 
The most authentic specimens of the #elis Catus, in rela- 
tion to their antiquity, which appear yet to have been ob- 
tained from British localities, are the right ramus of the 
lower jaw, retaining the canine tooth, discovered in the 
brick-earth at Grays, Essex, and a corresponding part of 
* Loc. cit. 
